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Highest Honor in Mathematics Is Refused
New York Times ^
| August 22, 2006
| KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 08/22/2006 6:26:08 PM PDT by indcons
Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician who solved a key piece in a century-old puzzle known as the Poincaré conjecture, was one of four mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal today.
Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician who solved a key piece in a century-old puzzle known as the Poincaré conjecture, was one of four mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal today.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: fieldsmedal; grigoryperelman; itdontaddup; math; mathematics
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:26:09 PM PDT
by
indcons
To: indcons
Proves that being a mathematical genus does not make you smart.
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:32:22 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: indcons
I wonder what the mathematical proof on those eyebrows is?
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:35:46 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife
"I don't need no stinking medal, I need a girlfriend and a better barber!"
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:38:32 PM PDT
by
Greenpees
(Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
To: indcons
All very impressive, but I routinely - and without electronic or mechanical aids - present exact change at fast-food drive-thru's, even for mutliple orders.
I usually don't like to brag, but if there is one of these awards that is just sitting there unclaimed, I mean come on....
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:43:19 PM PDT
by
keithtoo
(Israeli defense strategy "Cogito Ergo Boom!")
To: mylife
What is it about math and hermits?
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:45:55 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: keithtoo
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:46:56 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: indcons
Homotopy.
I have always found Topology to be fascinating stuff. I never took a Course in it, because that damned Professor of Calculus was simply impossible to understand. Well that German accent really was annoying. Totally fouled up my intended core curriculum. I became a History Major as a result.
Everything that I don't know about the subject matter "Poincaré conjecture" is cause for annoyance on my part.
Of the 32 persons who started that particular Calculus class, I heard that only 7 survived til the end. I was not one of them.
Now I'll Google the subject and reflect for a time. Thanks for the article!
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:48:09 PM PDT
by
Radix
(Law was made for Man, and Man was not made for the Law.)
To: doc1019
It seems that most geniuses are a bit nuts...It just shows that it truly does "take all kinds."
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:49:54 PM PDT
by
bannie
(HILLARY: Not all perversions are sexual.)
To: Radix
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posted on
08/22/2006 6:52:28 PM PDT
by
indcons
(Islam Delenda Est)
To: indcons
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:07:37 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: indcons
Someone quickly calculate the odds of the award being presented to me. I passed geometry with a C, though the teacher later claimed that was a math error.
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:38:41 PM PDT
by
petertare
(!)
To: indcons
Someone quickly calculate the odds of the award being presented to me. I passed geometry with a C, though the teacher later claimed that was a math error.
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:38:48 PM PDT
by
petertare
(!)
To: Greenpees
"I don't need no stinking medal, I need a girlfriend and a better barber!"Was gonna say! "Cannot spend, eat, or love a medal, comrade! ...And already have job-- as mathematician!!!"
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:50:10 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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