Author Topic: Grigory "Grisha" Perelman  (Read 207 times)

Offline Krusher

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Grigory "Grisha" Perelman
« on: August 16, 2006, 08:19:52 PM »
The maths world was set humming in 2002 by the first instalment of his ground-breaking work on the problem which was set out by the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Jules Henri Poincaré in 1904. The conjecture, which is difficult for most non-mathematicians even to understand, exercised some of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

It concerns the geometry of multidimensional spaces and is key to the field of topology. Dr Perelman claims to have solved a more general version of the problem called Thurston's geometrisation conjecture, of which the Poincaré conjecture is a special case.

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Grigory "Grisha" Perelman
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2006, 08:44:17 PM »
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