http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/07/27/poincare-conjecture-settled/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/07/27/poincare-conjecture-settled/#comment-1520 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:27:06 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/07/27/poincare-conjecture-settled/#comment-1520 […] The big math story in 2006 was the publication of complete proofs of the Poincare conjecture, and subsequent events. In August, Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his role in the proof, which he turned down. At the same time the New Yorker published its famous article about Perelman and Shing-Tung Yau. […]

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/07/27/poincare-conjecture-settled/#comment-1378 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:20:44 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/07/27/poincare-conjecture-settled/#comment-1378 […] Today’s Guardian, one of Britain’s leading national daily newspapers, has a front-page story and photo about Grigory Perelman’s proof of a generalization of the Poincare Conjecture.  The article is more about the man than the mathematics, but I guess this is the price of a Page-1 story. […]

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