{"id":496,"date":"2006-08-15T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/15\/the-poincare-conjecture\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T09:39:03","slug":"the-poincare-conjecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/15\/the-poincare-conjecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poincare Conjecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article in the Times<\/cite> today about Grisha Perelman and the Poincare conjecture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar\u00c3\u00a9 conjecture, about the nature of space. <\/p>\n

After posting a few short papers on the Internet and making a whirlwind lecture tour of the United States, Dr. Perelman disappeared back into the Russian woods in the spring of 2003, leaving the world’s mathematicians to pick up the pieces and decide if he was right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, in the classic manner of such articles, you’ve got to go down to the bottom of the first page to find out what the conjecture is, and to the bottom of the second before you find out what Perelman did to prove it. Even then the details are a little sketchy, but they have a lot of quotes from excited mathematicians about how cool this is.<\/p>\n

(Don’t expect a detailed explanation from me, by the way. I know next to nothing about topology– you want Mark Chu-Carroll<\/a> for that…)<\/p>\n

They also have a fair bit of stuff about how weird Perelman is. Why are so many brilliant mathematicians so goofy, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article in the Times today about Grisha Perelman and the Poincare conjecture: Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar\u00c3\u00a9 conjecture, about the nature of space.… Continue reading The Poincare Conjecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}