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Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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.'"

3 of 288 comments (clear)

  1. And where was the DMCA ? by tokyoahead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh my gawd! How the chinese and russians violated the DMCA by understanding what the US-Scientists did!
    How dare they build upon their knowledge! Lets sue them.
    I am glad there are some copyright laws to protect others knowledge.

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  2. Re:Dear God by bmo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The design is also fubar. It looks like Poo in the left hand corner in Konqueror/Safari.

    It looks fine in FF, but I hardly ever fire up FF now that Konq works.

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  3. sic? by lousyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.'"

    "contribution"? Not "contributions"? sic?

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