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

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