Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 4, 2006 @08:29PM from the late-night-math dept.

Joe Lau writes to mention a story running on the Xinhua News Agency site, reporting a proof for the Poincare Conjecture in an upcoming edition of the Asian Journal of Mathematics. From the article: "A Columbia professor Richard Hamilton and a Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman have laid foundation on the latest endeavors made by the two Chinese. Prof. Hamilton completed the majority of the program and the geometrization conjecture. Yang, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with Xinhua, 'All the American, Russian and Chinese mathematicians have made indispensable contribution to the complete proof.'"

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WDWC query by Toba82 · 2006-06-04 20:51 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This leads us to the answer to another pressing problem in mathematics - Why Do We Care?

Really, what does this have to do with how we deal with reality? Will we be buying amazing products that are based on this? Breaking encryption? Making pigs fly?

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Re:Chinese == Good at Math by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-04 22:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Did you solve it? Then quit boasting. There are a billion Chinese, it's not exactly an exclusive club.
What really happened by szembek · 2006-06-05 01:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I bet they just sanded the Motorola logo off of another proof and passed it by as their own.

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