[Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN

[Ram Sarangapani]

Thanks Santanu. That was an interesting piece.
and it is interesting this quote about Dr. Perelman.

"He came once, he explained things, and that was it," Dr. Anderson said.
"Anything else was superfluous."

It is no surprise that he is also not interested in the fame and the prize
money.



On 8/22/06, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  Santanu thanks-something to start!
> *Poincaré's conjecture can sound either daunting or deceptively simple. It
> asserts that if any loop in a certain kind of three-dimensional space can
> be shrunk to a point without ripping or tearing either the loop or the
> space, the space is equivalent to a sphere.
> *
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> From: *"Roy, Santanu" <sroy at mail.smu.edu>*
> To: *"Ram Sarangapani" <assamrs at gmail.com>,"AssamNet" <assam at assamnet.org>
> *
> Subject: *Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN*
> Date: *Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:33:11 -0500*
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> It is indeed a landmark event. Some more interesting details about the
> mathematicians involved and the problem itself (Poincare's conjecture) were
> contained in a New York times article "Elusive proof, elusive prover" last
> week:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html
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> You need to be registered with NYT to get that article from the website.
> If you are interested and cannot download it, I'll be happy to send it to
> you.
>
> Santanu.
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> *From:* assam-bounces at assamnet.org [mailto:assam-bounces at assamnet.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Ram Sarangapani
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:58 AM
> *To:* AssamNet
> *Subject:* [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN
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> For those interested in this kind of stuff.
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> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/22/math.genius.ap/index.html
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