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Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture
nev4 writes "Reuters (via Yahoo News) reports that Grigori Perelman from St. Petersburg, Russia appears to have solved the Poincare Conjecture. The Poincare Conjecture is one of the 7 Millenium Problems (another is P vs NP, also covered on /. recently). Solving a Millenium Problem carries a reward of $1M, but apparently Perelman isn't interested..." nerdb0t provides some background in the form of this MathWorld page from 2003.
It makes sense. Anyone that brilliant would see how pointless it is to worry about money. When will the rest of us learn? There's more to life than money.
Yeah, it's broadband.
"There is good reason to believe that Perelman's approach is correct. But the trouble is, he won't talk to anybody about it and has shown no interest in the money," said Keith Devlin, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University in California.
I'm always amazed how much free stuff is on the internet. Free million dollar solutions! Good luck with em!
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He's trying to integrate homeomorphic convergence using a Baxter-Bates supermodality, which Krause clearly explained is impossible for T(s) in a non-linear progression. Fantastic thought process on this complex differential geometric problem.
Just kidding! I have no clue what the hell this is. I got lost after the word conjecture.
They should give it to me so I can buy a 200,000,000 page Slashdot subscription.
I read all the links, and I'm pretty sure they were all in english, but I didn't understand a word of it. No wonder all the mathematicians are nuts.
(I wonder if this is what some of my non-engineering clients think of my work sometimes)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
His answer to the problem was "42".
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Whocarés Conjecture If we stretch a g-string around the surface of somebody's buttocks, then we can shrink it down to a point by moving it slowly, without tearing it and without allowing it to leave the surface. On the other hand, if we imagine that the same g-string has somehow been stretched in the appropriate direction around someone's face, then there is no way of shrinking it to a point without breaking either the g-string or suffocating the person. We say the surface of the buttocks are "simply connected," but that the surface of the person's face is not. Whocares knew almost hundred years ago, knew that a well shaped pair of cheeks is essentially characterized by this property of simple connectivity, and asked the corresponding question for the rest fo the people still reading this, as to why they were doing so. This question turned out to be extraordinarily difficult, and slashdotters have been struggling with it ever since.
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
the GBP is a new currency.
GBP (George Bush Pound) - The dollar unit associated with the search for WMDs.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
I'm joking, but you're still an idiot.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
...we must not have a poincare conjecture gap!
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Place a 2 by 4 on the floor in the door.
Slam the revolving door.
Another impossible problem solved.
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But the geeks are all kept equal with hatchet, ax, and 50-point karma cap.
However you stated 'We say the surface of the buttocks are "simply connected"' buy that do you mean to ignore all the plumbing associated with the butt while recognizing the thru and thru nature of the mouth/nose hole.
I NEED more information. I'm strangely fascenated by the topography of butts. Perhaps I can get a grant.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
sure, but can you ski through it?
There's more to life than money.
Yes, but he could reinvest the money into rubber bands and apples and solve thousands of Poincaré conjectures at once and thus gather even more money to buy apples for the hungry children in the world and rubber bands for their trousers. Well, if this business model isn't patented yet, of course...
That's a British million. A million is only 10^3 over there.
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Said, "Though I know that pain isn't real,
When I sit on a pin
And it punctures my skin
I dislike what I fancy I feel".
Oh! It's poincare... forget it...
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In that case it should be 5.6*i, since we all know the WMDs were imaginary.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Oh, good, now Russians are Muppets. You've helped.
In Soviet Russia...
they prove conjectures.
That would be an Erdos number of 1. And btw, holy shit thats awesome. You have an Erdos number of 2.
You are forgetting that this is about an Apple, so obviously there's a Reality Distortion Field at play somewhere. Anything is possible. Including 2D fruit, 4D donuts, and G5 sunflowers. Oh wait, the last one isn't.
I wonder if this Russian fella used RDF as a factor in his equations?!
So Dr. Evil was only demanding $1K?
Yes, it is, for small values of million.
I've solved it:
5 Riemann hypothesis Involving zeta functions, and an assertion that all "interesting" solutions to an equation lie on a straight line. It seems to be true for the first 1,500 million solutions, but does that mean it is true for them all?
Answer: NO it doesn't mean it's true for all of them. You would have to prove that.
Where do I get my money?
Karma police, I've given all I can, it's not enough, I've given all I can, but we're still on the payroll.
You just made all that up, didn't you?
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You're completely correct; I think my comment was mistaken.
Woah, that's weird! I thought I was reading Slashdot but it must actually be some other site.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
I think you misspelled sourted.
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Didn't we learn anything from Pi? Mathematicians shouldn't play the market. It makes them put a drill through their skull. Please, help save a mathematician today.