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Abstract
We describe Vaughan Jones’s ground-breaking discovery that symmetries of II1\mathrm {II}_1 factors, as encoded by their subfactors, are quantized and have a natural index that can be non-integral. We then comment on the impact his revolutionary work had in the study of II1\mathrm {II}_1 factors.
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The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.