Santanu thanks-something to start!
Poincaré's conjecture can sound either daunting or deceptively simple. It asserts that if any loop in a certain kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is equivalent to a sphere.
From: "Roy, Santanu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ram Sarangapani" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"AssamNet" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Historic Math problem solved -CNN
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:33:11 -0500
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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