[tx_eggman]

On the surface of a doughnut, however, a lasso passing through the hole in the centre cannot be shrunk to a point without cutting through the surface.

After it's cut, and only if no one objects, I'll take the half with the most sprinkles on it.

[lilylangtree]

"objects that do not change when they are stretched, distorted or shrunk"

Definitely permapress material.

[Obie Wan]

Hmmmmmmm,just wondering,I wonder when the last Muslim won a math contest ???

[jdsteel]

This just doesn't add up.

[Bonaparte]

Perelman sounds a bit like Isaac Newton -- reserved, aloof, reclusive, confirmed bachelor, devoted to his mother.

[econjack]

Poincare Conjecture...didn't Al Gore say he invented it?

[durasell]

"He has a different psychological make up, which makes him see life differently."





Hogwash. The guy lives with his mother, he just can't pull himself away from his X-Box and he has a really hot cyber-date with Hotsyfoxy33 every second Tuesday. If you tricked him and said the Nobel Prize was really a Star Trek Convention, he'd be there in an instant!

[thulldud]

A topologist is a guy that sees no difference between the doughnut and the coffee cup he's dunking it in.

[glorgau]

King Juan Carlos of Spain

The anti-Christ?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

On the surface of a doughnut, however, a lasso passing through the hole in the centre cannot be shrunk to a point without cutting through the surface.

That would be true of a lasso around the middle of barbells and any number of irregular shapes too?