Proof of Poincare Conjecture Apparently Confirmed

[jinydu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/scien ... ref=slogin

I might consider talking to Prof. Greene about this myself.

[moonlord]

I've just heard on the radio that the russian mathematician refused the Fields prize because the jury wasn't "eminent enough" (literal translation from Romanian). He also refused the million dollar prize because "it wasn't of interest for him" (another word by word translation).

[bo198214]

Oh but that was another one.
The russian Perelman seems to have a proof for the Thurston's geometrization conjecture which implies the Poincare conjecture.
But independently two chinese mathematicians Cao and Zhu published a paper in which they prove the Poincare conjecture.

[houserichichi]

I was certain I heard about Cao and Zhu so the Perelman paper threw me right off. At any rate he certainly seems like my antithesis.

[moonlord]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

This is the most reliable source for information that I have found.

[bo198214]

Why the hell is the story of solving the Poincare conjecture lined out in the page of Perelman???

Ok, but its also described in the direct poincare conjecture article

[bo198214]

For those who have a bit time left, the more detailed story.

EDIT: Just found this sentence in there

"Hamilton contributed over fifty per cent; the Russian, Perelman, about
twenty-five per cent; and the Chinese, Yau, Zhu, and Cao et al., about
thirty per cent." (Evidently, simple addition can sometimes trip up
even a mathematician.)

But be aware that it is not a summary of the article.

[houserichichi]

I just read that whole thing. What a great article, thanks for posting it!

[Nick]

VERY Interesting! Post more things like this.

[jinydu]

Who are Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber (the authors of that article)?

[Hugh]

Who are Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber (the authors of that article)?

Sylvia Nasar wrote A Beautiful Mind. There is a page about her at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar

David Gruber is "an oceanographer and science journalist. In January 2006, his first book, Aglow in the Dark, was published by Harvard University Press. The book, co-written with Vincent Pieribone, a medical professor at Yale University, traces the discovery of bioluminescence and fluorescent proteins and their impact on biology."

[papernuke]

Is Greene an author? If he is I bought one of his books yesterday at Borders. It was pretty good.