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" It took four years for teams of academics around the world to check Mr Perelman's solution, but eventually they confirmed that he had cracked a conundrum that many had thought unsolvable. "
1 posted on 03/28/2010 1:40:12 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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Does this guy end every conversation with, “I don’t always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friend?”


2 posted on 03/28/2010 1:44:31 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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BTW, he should take the money and use it to get a make over.


3 posted on 03/28/2010 1:45:12 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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He turned down the Fields Medal? Wow.


6 posted on 03/28/2010 1:57:39 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
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This man is completely amazing, but 10 bucks says he’s never been laid. Any takers?


8 posted on 03/28/2010 2:02:55 AM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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Interesting guy. Brilliant.


14 posted on 03/28/2010 2:36:25 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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And no one bothers to ask or define ... what the hell is Poincare's conjecture??

For compact 2-dimensional surfaces without boundary, if every loop can be continuously tightened to a point, then the surface is topologically homeomorphic to a 2-sphere, usually just called a sphere. The Poincaré conjecture asserts that the same is true for 3-dimensional surfaces.

(Like .. I even understand THAT !!?!!)

26 posted on 03/28/2010 3:11:01 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Not surprised several conclude this man has a variety of mental defects giving justification to his brilliance.


33 posted on 03/28/2010 4:40:35 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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Holy crap!! A neanderthal solved the world’s toughest math problem!!

No wonder those cavemen on the Geico commercials get so mad!


40 posted on 03/28/2010 5:44:25 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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I am better than nothing?


45 posted on 03/28/2010 6:25:08 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: bruinbirdman

I enjoyed this post. Thanks for bringing it to us.


58 posted on 03/28/2010 4:09:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Novemberrrrrr.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2477039/posts?page=16#16)
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He doesn’t need it. He’s doing alright with the GEICO commercials.


62 posted on 03/28/2010 8:06:52 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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I attended the 80th birthday physics lecture conference for Julian Schwinger at UCLA. Understood maybe 50%, and one of the talks might as well have been in Japanese. Met Schwinger as he was walking with an aid to his car. Shook hands with John Bell too. Very interesting. But alot of these guys were also real kooks, wearing ratty suits, socks of differing colors, etc. And several of them really smelled bad.

What is it that’s said about the fine line twixt genius and insanity?


69 posted on 07/25/2012 7:08:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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