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Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture

Posted by timothy on from the he-said-to-forward-the-prize-money-to-me dept.

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.

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  1. If he doesn't want the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll be glad to take it.

  2. Well, at least the Russkies are good at math... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...because they're really awful at hostage rescues.

    1. Re:Well, at least the Russkies are good at math... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well at least they can rescue hostages! There were 1000 people in that school and only 350 died. Everyone could have died if they did nothing.

    2. Re:Well, at least the Russkies are good at math... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh, and how many hostages were saved on 9/11 ?

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  4. Re:He'd post AC by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice moderation. Offtopic maybe (if you're some fascist cretin that can't accept tangential threads), but troll? Since when is troll simply "something I don't believe/agree with" ?

  5. must have ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    already done two chicks at the same time