Genius solves $1m mystery

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Genius solves $1m mystery

JOHN INNES


ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been cracked by a reclusive Russian who has no interest in the million dollar prize his solution could win him.

The Poincare Conjecture tries to explain the behaviour of multi-dimensional shapes. Since Henri Poincare suggested the theorem in 1904, great mathematicians have failed to prove it either right or wrong.

But Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, has published two papers offering a solution to a larger-scale problem and experts say that within it is proof that the Poincare Conjecture works.

The cash prize is being offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States.
 
Hmm...I'm no maths genius and have no frigging idea what this is all about! :P
 
*nod in agreement with P.R.1971*... Wonder if the this mathematic problem will be solved by anyone apart from this Russian, I wonder?
 
PurpleRose71 said:
Hmm...I'm no maths genius and have no frigging idea what this is all about! :P
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*nodding in agreement* i have no clue too! LOL
 
tekkmortal said:
Genius solves $1m mystery

JOHN INNES


ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been cracked by a reclusive Russian who has no interest in the million dollar prize his solution could win him.

The Poincare Conjecture tries to explain the behaviour of multi-dimensional shapes. Since Henri Poincare suggested the theorem in 1904, great mathematicians have failed to prove it either right or wrong.

But Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, has published two papers offering a solution to a larger-scale problem and experts say that within it is proof that the Poincare Conjecture works.

The cash prize is being offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the United States.
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Some genius if he turns down $1,000,000! ;)
 
I already told them 2+2=4 but they would give me the money :dunno:
 
Here's a Wikipedia page about the Poincaré conjecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincare_Conjecture
It links to this page that is more readable.
It says:
Though abstract, the conjecture has powerful practical implications: Solve it and you may be able to describe the shape of the universe.
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While working out the Poincare Conjecture, Perelman also seems to have established a much stronger result, one that could change many branches of mathematics. Called the "Geometrization Conjecture," it is a far-reaching claim that joins topology and geometry, by stating that all space-like structures can be divided into parts, each of which can be described by one of three kinds of simple geometric models. Like a similar result for surfaces proved a century ago, this would have profound consequences in almost all areas of mathematics.
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