memoire-m2

diff --git a/memoir.tex b/memoir.tex
@@ -12,7 +12,41 @@
 
 \maketitle
 
-\input{sections/preface}
+\begin{about}
+  This is my M2 Memoir (Master Thesis), written in June 2024 under the
+  supervision of professor Maxime Wolff of the Institut of Mathématiques de
+  Toulouse (IMT), France. The subject of the dissertation at hand is the notion
+  of the mapping class group of a surface, their linear representations and
+  some recent developments in the field. Namely, we discuss Korkmaz' proof of
+  the triviality of low-dimensional representations.
+
+  Throughout these notes we will follow some guiding principles. First, lengthy
+  proofs are favored as opposed to collections of smaller lemmas. This is a
+  deliberate effort to emphasize the relevant results. That said, this
+  dissertation is meant to be concise. Hence numerous results are left
+  unproved. We refer the reader to proofs in other materials when appropriate.
+
+  Our main references are the beautiful book by Farb-Margalit
+  \cite{farb-margalit}, as well as the 2023 article by Korkmaz \cite{korkmaz}.
+  We assume the reader is already familiar with basic topology and group
+  theory. Cruacially, we \emph{do not} assume any familiarity with
+  representation-theory.
+
+  \section*{Acknowledgments}
+
+  I would like to thank my friends and family for their tireless love and
+  support. Special thanks to my girlfriend for her endless encouragement and
+  understanding during this challenging year. I should also thank M. Faitg for
+  his help with the discussion on TQFT representations.
+
+  \section*{License}
+
+  This document was typeset and compiled using free software. Its \LaTeX~source
+  code is freely available at \url{https://git.pablopie.xyz/memoire-m2}, for
+  distribution under the terms of the
+  \href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}{Creative Commons
+  Attribution 4.0 license}.
+\end{about}
 
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+  {\chapter*{About}
+   \thispagestyle{empty}
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-\chapter*{About}
-
-\thispagestyle{empty}
-
-This is my M2 Memoir (Master Thesis), written in June 2024 under the
-supervision of professor Maxime Wolff of the Institut of Mathématiques de
-Toulouse (IMT), France. The subject of the dissertation at hand is the notion
-of the mapping class group of a surface, their linear representations and some
-recent developments in the field. Namely, we discuss Korkmaz' proof of the
-triviality of low-dimensional representations.
-
-Throughout these notes we will follow some guiding principles. First, lengthy
-proofs are favored as opposed to collections of smaller lemmas. This is a
-deliberate effort to emphasize the relevant results. That said, this
-dissertation is meant to be concise. Hence numerous results are left unproved.
-We refer the reader to proofs in other materials when appropriate.
-
-Our main references are the beautiful book by Farb-Margalit
-\cite{farb-margalit}, as well as the 2023 article by Korkmaz \cite{korkmaz}. We
-assume the reader is already familiar with basic topology and group theory.
-Cruacially, we \emph{do not} assume any familiarity with representation-theory.
-
-\section*{Acknowledgments}
-
-I would like to thank my friends and family for their tireless love and
-support. Special thanks to my girlfriend for her endless encouragement and
-understanding during this challenging year. I should also thank M. Faitg for
-his help with the discussion on TQFT representations.
-
-\section*{License}
-
-This document was typeset and compiled using free software. Its \LaTeX~source
-code is freely available at \url{https://git.pablopie.xyz/memoire-m2}, for
-distribution under the terms of the
-\href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}{Creative Commons
-Attribution 4.0 license}.
-
-\newpage
-
-\thispagestyle{empty}