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A (Correct) Poincare Proof!?

Posted by Hemos on from the working-it-out dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ok by fruey · · Score: 0, Troll
    I fucking HATE french people.

    I hope that's a joke.

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    Conversion Rate Optimisation French / English consultant
  2. Unfortunately, this is not a correct proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll


    In his paper he claims to prove that a simply connected closed 3 dimensional manifold is stellar equivalent to the 3-sphere. However, his definition of page 11 of simply connected is incorrect. Using his "definition" it is trivial to prove the Poincare conjecture in every dimension. (Even though it is known to be false in higher dimensions.)

    Nice try. But I guess we'll have to wait for the next incorrect proof.