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NYT on Poincaré conjecture and Grisha Perelman

Martin
in Analysis and Calculus

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this is a good article

it gives lots of mental imagery to help understand the significance

of the Poinc conj and how a series of minds succeeded to prove it

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?8dpc=&_r=2&pagewanted=print

 

it's by Dennis Overbye, who is the top NYT science writer at least for physics and math.

 

This link has the pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc&_r=2

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