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Millennium Prize Awarded For Perelman's Poincaré Proof

epee1221 writes "The Clay Mathematics Institute has announced its acceptance of Dr. Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture and awarded the first Millennium Prize. Poincaré questioned whether there exists a method for determining whether a three-dimensional manifold is a spherical: is there a 3-manifold not homologous to the 3-sphere in which any loop can be gradually shrunk to a single point? The Poincaré conjecture is that there is no such 3-manifold, i.e. any boundless 3-manifold in which the condition holds is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere. A sketch of the proof using language intended for the lay reader is available at Wikipedia."

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  1. Re:what about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...deter-mining the internal squared volume of a spherical cavity?

    The correct illustration you are trying to present is this

  2. Linux Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bet this was calculated using Linux. If he tried to use Windows to work out the answer, all of the DRM code would have gotten in the way, and the sums would have been in propriatery Excel format and no good scientists (who use GIMP) would have been able to read them.

  3. Re:English Please by gbutler69 · · Score: -1, Troll

    They wanted to prove if a Man Homo can be made equivalent to a She-Male! In other words, are all Man Homos the same as a She-Male? This proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt then Man Homos cannot be reduces to Altar Boys and so are in fact She-Males.

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    Over-the-top Response Guy! Giving "Over-the-Top Responses" since 1970.
  4. c08 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  5. Re:Great news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're no prize.