Re: Good news for Henry and Lorad474: Holman on leave from SCB

vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
MTRP? wrote:
Speaking on
math I'm more concerned about Russia-China clash over the Poincare
"millennium" conjecture.
Tell me more. All I know is this:

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RUSSIAN SCHOLAR SOLVES MYSTERY OF THE CENTURY, STANDS TO EARN $1
MILLION
MOSCOW, September 8: Kit Devlin, a mathematics professor at Stanford
University, has said at an annual science festival in Exeter, UK, that
the solution to the Henry Poincare problem suggested by Russian
mathematician Grigory Perelman is perfect. If other mathematicians do
not disprove his calculations in the near future, the scholar will be
awarded $1 million.
Grigory Perelman, a leading researcher at the mathematical physics lab
of the St Petersburg branch of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics,
who holds a degree of candidate of physics and mathematics, found the
answer to the problem back two years ago, recalled the newspaper. The
scholar's two articles that claimed he had proved Poincare's hypothesis
were published on the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Web site at that
time.
The problem is that Mr. Perelman does not seem to be interested in
getting the money. He has avoided discussing his results with anyone or
meeting reporters. He has not even bothered to provide his work to
mathematical editions of authority like The Advances in Mathematics
magazine, while his articles published on the Internet are preprints
and are not qualified as scientific publications, according to
Professor Devlin.
The hypothesis was articulated by French scholar Henry Poincare in
1904. It is considered to be a central problem of topology, a science
about the geometric properties of bodies that do not change when bodies
stretch, curve or contract. Scholars had been unsuccessfully struggling
to find an answer to the problem for 100 years.
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Where does China come in? I didn't know they had their own perelmans...
How did they get there?

It's old news and Keith Devlin is no oracle. The new news sez that two
US Chinese all of a sudden published THEIR proof without making
explicit references to Perelman's priority. Sci is not SCB biz, so if
you wanna know more move to SCR.

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