Work
Rokhlin's contributions to topology include a result of 1952 on the signature of 4-manifolds, which was subsequently generalised by Hirzebruch. He also worked in the theory of characteristic classes, homotopy theory and cobordism theory.
In measure theory, Rokhlin introduced what is now called Rokhlin partitions. He introduced the notion of standard probability space, and characterised such spaces up to isomorphism mod 0.
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