Maybe he has a flaw in his proof that he ain't telling?

CLICKY.

PS. Oh, yeah, he still lives with his mom .

 

Yeah, the lives-with-mom part gets me along with not being interested in the likely-upcoming $1M. Strange dude.

Who knew that a toroid couldn't be mapped to a sphere? Sounds hard to prove.

 

The Yahoo! article, not surprisingly, got the details wrong. Here's an article that accurately describes the Poincar

 

Math is so damn interesting, but I don't understand even the simplest algebra.

I'm sure if I had better teachers who could explain things in a way I could understand, my life would have been different....


I searched on WTH the Poincare conjecure was and after reading about 10 articles, it made no complete sense....Except for this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html


That's the difference between a good writer and a mathmatician who tries to write. I guess that's one of the many reasons why I'm more drawn to English than Math.

 

Ahh, but you can't read the article without being a member. Member=spam so would anyone care to cut and paste?

 

Correction Appended

Grisha Perelman, where are you?

Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar

 

In the case of two dimensions, like the surface of a sphere or a doughnut, it is easy to see what Poincar