André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture

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Weil actually had little direct interaction with Hodge himself. Five days later, Hodge presented the original version of the Hodge conjecture in another lecture. Therefore, if the entire Hodge ring of a variety were generated by degree-2 Hodge classes, the Hodge conjecture would follow automatically.

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