http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/09/18/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer/ 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/2006/09/18/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer/#comment-1424 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:44:22 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/09/18/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer/#comment-1424 […] Shing-Tung Yau is fighting back against the New Yorker article “Manifold Destiny”, which was very critical of him, essentially claiming he was trying to steal credit for the proof of the Poincare Conjecture from Perelman. He has hired a lawyer and set-up a web-site. The web-site includes a long letter from his lawyer to the New Yorker, making his case that the article has many inaccuracies. There will be a webcast tomorrow at noon giving his side of this story. Many other blogs are discussing this, see here, here, here and here. Unfortunately for Yau, he has strong support from Lubos Motl, who seems a tad obsessed, ranting about how the quality of the New Yorker article: […]

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/09/18/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer/#comment-1423 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:50:24 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/09/18/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer/#comment-1423 […] (Spotted at Ars Mathematica.) […]

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