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08-01-2004, 11:01
Russian may have solved great math mystery
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture.
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/West/01/07/math.mystery.ap/story.poincare.conjecture.jpg
Evidence has been mounting since November 2002 that Grigori "Grisha" Perelman has cracked the 100-year-old problem, which seeks to explain the geometry of three-dimensional space.
If Perelman succeeded, he could be eligible for a $1 million prize offered by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematics Institute, formed to identify the world's seven toughest math problems.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/01/07/math.mystery.ap/index.html
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture.
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/West/01/07/math.mystery.ap/story.poincare.conjecture.jpg
Evidence has been mounting since November 2002 that Grigori "Grisha" Perelman has cracked the 100-year-old problem, which seeks to explain the geometry of three-dimensional space.
If Perelman succeeded, he could be eligible for a $1 million prize offered by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematics Institute, formed to identify the world's seven toughest math problems.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/01/07/math.mystery.ap/index.html