🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Baldwin, Bruce wrote:
> Holly wrote:
>> Put down your socks and get ready to get yer priZe!
> 
> Quit yer grinnin' and drop yer linen.

Good one.  I would edit it thusly.  "Quit your grinnin' and drop yer linen."

> 
>> "Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory
>> Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved
>> a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar�
>> conjecture, about the nature of space.
>>
>> After posting a few short papers on the Internet and making a whirlwind
>> lecture tour of the United States, Dr. Perelman disappeared back into
>> the Russian woods in the spring of 2003, leaving the world's
>> mathematicians to pick up the pieces and decide if he was right.
>>
>> Now they say they have finished his work, and the evidence is
>> circulating among scholars in the form of three book-length papers with
>> about 1,000 pages of dense mathematics and prose between them.
>>
>> As a result there is a growing feeling, a cautious optimism that they
>> have finally achieved a landmark not just of mathematics, but of human
>> thought."
>>
>>
>> Poincar�'s conjecture:  "It asserts that if any loop in a certain
>> kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without
>> ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is
>> equivalent to a sphere. "
>>
>> "In effect, what Poincar� suggested was that anything without holes
>> has to be a sphere. The one qualification was that this "anything"
>> had to be what mathematicians call compact, or closed, meaning that it
>> has a finite extent: no matter how far you strike out in one direction
>> or another, you can get only so far away before you start coming back,
>> the way you can never get more than 12,500 miles from home on the
>> Earth."
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin
>>
>> Now this is exciting!
> 
> This just doesn't add up.
>