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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. Duplicate? by Utopia · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seems like a dup of a story posted in Dec 2003

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01 /0 1/0035258&tid=134&tid=14

  2. Re:Well, at least the Russkies are good at math... by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who in Hell modded this insightfull? Flamebait or 'moronic joker' would be more appropriate...

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  3. It's spelled "millennium" by nonregistered · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's all.

  4. Re:The Millenium Problems by Disevidence · · Score: 0, Troll

    Read this

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  5. He's probably not even Russian by melted · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm having a hard time imagining that a Russian would call someone with a Jewish last name Russian. :0) Russia is a heavily anti-semitic country.