How Dennis realized he had `invented' $L_\infty$-algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras

Jim Stasheff

How Dennis realized he had `invented' L_infty-algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras

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How Dennis realized he had `invented' $L_\infty$-algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras

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This is my attempt to rediscover how Dennis realized that he had discovered/invented $L_\infty$-algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras before my colleagues and I defined them.

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