It is indeed a landmark event. Some more interesting details about the mathematicians involved and the problem itself (Poincare’s conjecture) were contained in a New York times article “Elusive proof, elusive prover” last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html

 

You need to be registered with NYT to get that article from the website. If you are interested and cannot download it, I’ll be happy to send it to you.

Santanu.  


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For those interested in this kind of stuff.

 

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