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A (Correct) Poincare Proof!?
aphyscher writes "About a year ago, there was an
announcement that M.J. Dunwoody had proved the (in)famous
Poincare conjecture.
His paper turned out to have a slight problem, and so it remained unsolved...
until perhaps now!
Sergey Nikitin has posted a preprint of what may perhaps be an actual proof."
Mmmm...hypothetical donut...
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
But alas, the space alloted in a regular comments window is insufficient to explain further...
Ok so rad the pre-writeup on this and I can say this: WAY OVER MY HEAD! I understood about
1.05E-60% of that. Holy cow. There is proof that higher education still turns out some bright people. I wish I knew what the hell all that was about, it "looks" cool. You could use that as a prop in a movie for some secret formula or something.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
...the most intelligent thing I can think of is: "Mmmmm...donuts."
A.) There's now a correct proof of the Poincare problem!
B.) Jon Katz no longer posts to Slashdot!
C.) Chris D. starts his own gaming company; plans to fill-in Part 2 of the traditional Steps 1, 2, & 3 to Profit!
D.) Microsoft is now the largest paid advertiser on Slashdot.org, the be-all-end-all for all Open-Source/Free-Software news
My brain needs a reboot.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Well, if you give the proof at a big university chances are you'll totally score with some PhD Math chick.
It will allow industry analysts to work out just how much money the RIAA looses each second because of MP3s.
Oh, and it will also predict when Linux 3.0.0 is due for release.
This is just mathematical proof that you can wrap a rubberband around an apple. I think the rest of us would be satisfied by a videotape instead.
Well, if you give the proof at a big university chances are you'll totally score with some PhD Math chick.
Before you guys all start dissing math chicks, remember that "mathematicans do it smoothly and continuously". I wanted to put that on a bumper sticker and slap it on my car but I went with "My girlfriend can't wrestle but you should see her box" instead.
GMD
watch this
wow.. finally.. i can sleep at night!!
Well, duh.
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Finally I can complete the warp engine. We shall fly through space like a rubber band flung from the surface of a sphere. Evil donuts beware. Why do Brits say maths instead of just math?
Phase 2: Collect Clay Math Prize
Phase 3: Profit
Now *there's* a business model!
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remember that "mathematicans do it smoothly and continuously"
...
Heh, I got that beat hands down - I'm a tribologist.
Tribology = study of friction, wear and lubrication
What's more, my specialisation is biotribology (lubrication mostly) - tribology applied to biological systems. I'm sure you can see where this is headed
"Because it's there." - George Mallory, when asked why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, March 18, 1923 (New York Times)
Archimedes invented the screw pump while taking a bath
Actually, it's a bit more logical than that. He discovered the principal of displacement while taking a bath.
I'm not exactly sure how one would think of "screw pumps" while in the bath. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
How do we use this to take down the RIAA/MPAA?
Gallagher could reduce both an apple and a donut to a point...with just one swing!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Aye, as most objects of uniform density do :)
Doesn't "uniform density" mean "as opposed to something like swiss cheese"? I was talking about holes as in donut, not holes as in swiss cheese or holes as in IIS. Can a torus have a uniform density?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Frink: Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, n'gee, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into...[the lights go off] the third dimension.
Lisa: [turning the lights back on] Sorry.
Frink: [drawing on a blackboard] Here is an ordinary square --
Wiggum: Whoa, whoa -- slow down, egghead!
Frink: -- but suppose we extend the square beyond the two dimensions of our universe - along the hypothetical Z axis, there.
Everyone: [gasps]
Frink: This forms a three-dimensional object known as a "cube", or a "Frinkahedron" in honor of its discoverer, n'hey, n'hey.
Education is the silver bullet.
Step 1) Prove that it is possible that a fundamental group of 3-dimensional manifolds (V) could be trivial, even though V is not homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere.
Step 2) ??????
Step 3) ????????
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
A mathematician was once asked about how he could visualize a 3-D Sphere. His response was, "Simple! First visualize an n-D Sphere and then set n to 3".
Read this a while ago somewhere. Couldn't resist posting it.
S
Actually, all the article says is that they have finally realized that Douglas Adams is right.... the last line of the proof is:
= 42
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Dang. I have moderator points, but I don't see the option to mod this post "Whiney".
The Poincare Conjecture and the issues surrounding it can be described using nothing but anagrams of the famous mathematicians name.
IE NO CRAP
Poincare was A NICE PRO by the standards of the time. I wish I had A COIN PER attempt to prove his theorem! Believe me, its NO PI RACE
I'd ususally begin with a topological approach.
Take a tennis ball and try to ARC ONE PI around the circumference, then PAIR ONCE.
Getting too hard, need to go home to use super-computer.
I OPEN CAR and drive home. ARE I PC ON? Click on PEAR ICON to load fruity maths app.
Finally prove the theorem!
I RAP ONCE and then REAP COIN.
Thats all, I NO RECAP
Sorry, someone had to do it!
I. PORN ACE