Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Math Genius Shuns Fields Medal & Eyebrow Up Keep


A Russian mathematician has refused to accept the prestigious Fields Medal for solving the Poincare conjecture.

The Poincare conjecture essentially says that in three dimensions you cannot transform a doughnut shape into a sphere without ripping it, although any shape without a hole can be stretched or shrunk into a sphere.

Duh.

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