Poincare Conjecture Solved?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: September 8, 2004 9:28:31 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Poincare Conjecture Solved?
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Mike Cheponis.  DLH]

> From: Mike Cheponis <mac () wireless com>
> Date: September 6, 2004 11:12:08 PM PDT
> Subject: Poincare Conjecture Solved?
>
> Reclusive Russian may have solved one of the world's toughest  
> mathematics problems and stands to win $1 million (560 million pounds)  
> -- but he doesn't appear to care.
>
> Grigori Perelman from St. Petersburg claims to have solved the  
> horrendously complicated Poincare Conjecture that tries to explain the  
> behaviour of multi-dimensional shapes in space, thereby making himself  
> eligible for the prize offered by the Massachusetts-based Clay  
> Mathematics Institute.
>
> But there's a snag. He has simply posted his results on the Internet  
> and left his peers to work out for themselves whether he is right --  
> something they are still struggling to do.
>
> "There is good reason to believe that Perelman's approach is correct.  
> But the trouble is, he won't talk to anybody about it and has shown no  
> interest in the money," said Keith Devlin, Professor of Mathematics at  
> Stanford University in California.
>
> "There won't be a golden moment when he is suddenly accepted as being  
> right. There will just be a drift in that direction," he told the  
> annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of  
> Science.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ 
> nm/20040906/od_uk_nm/oukoe_science_maths
>
> also http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Poincare_Conjecture/
> which is about the conjecture.


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