Did anyone else recieve a press release from Shing-Tung Yau’s lawyer? With no explanation, I was sent this press release from Howard Cooper, Yau’s lawyer, denying the version of events described in Nasar and Gruber’s New Yorker article, Manifold Destiny. There’s nothing in the e-mail, other than press release, so as far as I know they either a) sent it to me because I linked to the New Yorker article, b) sent it to everyone with an e-mail address on this site, or c) everyone in the world. (In fact, I almost deleted the mail as spam without reading it.)
The web version of the press release links to this letter from Cooper to the article’s authors, detailing their specific charges. The letter is careful to make it sound like they could sue, but they haven’t made up their mind to do so yet.
[...] (Spotted at Ars Mathematica.) [...]
[...] 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: [...]
Is the above Blog-spam, or videos of Shing-Tung Yau dating Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton?