It is shown that the non-singular model of an algebraic surface, lying in complex projective 3-space and possessing only ordinary double points, is differentiably homeomorphic to any non-singular surface of the same degree. This result does not hold in any other dimension.
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Michael Atiyah (1958) studied this question.
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