Saturday, December 23, 2006

math news


Maths papers hailed as breakthrough of the year 2006.First proposed by French scientist Henri Poincare in 1904, the theory about "rubbery sheet geometry" and surfaces that can be stretched remained in the ether until reclusive mathematician Grigori Perelman published the first of three papers on the subject in 2002.The global mathematic community universally concluded that Mr Perelman had not only proved the Poincare theorem but also alluded to something more ambitious.

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