[IP] Poincare Conjecture Solved?
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 8, 2004 9:28:31 PM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Poincare Conjecture Solved?
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[Note: This item comes from reader Mike Cheponis. DLH]
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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