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Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved
Flamerule writes "The New York Times is now reporting that Dr. Grigori (Grisha) Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, appears to have solved the famous Poincaré Conjecture, one of the Clay Institute's million-dollar Millennium Prize problems. I first noticed a short blurb about this at the MathWorld homepage last week, but Google searches have revealed almost nothing but the date and times of some of his lectures this month, including a packed session at MIT (photos), in which he reportedly presented material that proves the Conjecture. More specifically, the relevant material comes from a paper ("The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications") from last November, and a follow-up that was just released last month."
See you in the news, then.
BOO! TERRO
Bah...First they say he solved it, then they put him away for murder...
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
If there is a way to read this NY Times stuff without reg., why do people keep posting this annoying "reg. req'd." links?
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Much thanks!
-hb/n
Good Will Hunting...
"The faculty have answered (a long-since-dead guy), and answered with vigor"
What the fuck is a Micro$soft Visual Studio.net advertisement doing on SLASHDOT!!!??? I click to see the Poincare Conjecture article and that gawd aweful eyesore pops up on my Macintosh screen. How dare you! Are you guys that hard up for cash that you'd take money from the BORG?
I solved this a long time ago! Here it is in RSA!
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I love programming, and I've been doing it since I was a small child. I love the concepts, the creation, it's great.
After getting my CS degree I noticed that I only needed 2 more classes to get a degree in math. I like the idea of math, but I hate actually doing it. I'm more the "practical smart" kind of person that learns by "doing stuff". Math tends to require "book smarts", lots of thoery and reading. I hated school.
Why is it that I can love something so technically challenging, requiring great mental effort like programming yet dislike math and reading so much?
I'm terrible at word associates and things like that. Reading specifications gives me a headache. I can't spell for shiat. And yet I know over 20 programming languages and have developed extremely complex and successful software over the years. I'm very good at it.
What's the deal?
Thank you Dr. Slashdot.