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Science's Breakthrough of the Year 2006, a First for Math, but with Physics Connections
American Institute of Physics ^ | December 21, 2006 | Davide Castelvecci and Martha J. Heil

Posted on 12/22/2006 12:09:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv

At the time when Hamilton and Friedan discovered the Ricci flow, there wasn't much communication between physicists and mathematicians, Morrison says. "They arrived at this notion completely independently." But the communication between the fields has partially improved in recent years, he says. "In Perelman's first preprint, he seems really inspired by the occurrence." And since Perelman's proof appeared, there has been renewed interest to investigate the applications of the Ricci flow to string theory, he says. Perelman's proof was the first mathematical discovery to be recognized by Science magazine as the Breakthrough of the Year.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: stringtheory
Breakthrough of the Year 2006

1 posted on 12/22/2006 12:09:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; FairOpinion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...
Perelman turned down the Fields Medal, has (it sez here) shown little interest in the $1 million prize money offered by the Clay Mathematical Foundation, and oh by the way, last I knew, he still lived with his mommy.

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2 posted on 12/22/2006 12:10:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Don't bother, I haven't updated my profile since 11/16/06. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Ricci flow dissipates curvature just like the heat equation dissipates heat

3 posted on 12/22/2006 2:13:16 AM PST by samtheman (The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
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Great, as if we needed just another way to slam our heads into really nasty differential equations...


4 posted on 12/22/2006 2:42:25 AM PST by Codename - Ron Benjamin (I'm gonna sing the doom song now. Pre-emptive, multi-tasking, interrupt control!)
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Perelman fields site:freerepublic.com
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5 posted on 12/22/2006 9:28:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Don't bother, I haven't updated my profile since 11/16/06. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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