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This Plus article describes some of the work of John Milnor, on $K$-theory and other branches of mathematics, for which he received the Abel Prize in 2011.
The Plus article The shape of things to come introduces the Bloch-Kato Conjecture, linking algebraic $K$-theory with other areas of mathematics.
Michael Atiyah wrote a commentary about his papers on $K$-theory.
