The Geek Notes Blog, devoted to TeX mostly, has a pleasant diversion on the
topic of Alexander Perelman, who may have used notions of Richard Hamilton to solve the Poincare Conjecture.
The speicfic blog entry points to an article in the Boston Globe on the subject, and mentions this
American Institute of Math Conference devoted to these advances.
But, it may be that Perelman will not publish his papers. The Poincare conjecture is a Million Dollar problem, thanks to the genoristy of the Clay Math Institute. The specific rules for awarding this prize money are listed on the web site seem hide bound. A committee to evaluate the claim wont be convened until two years after publication in a referred Math journal. Perelman may not publish, though he has posted his papers on the Arxiv. They have been availibe there since 2002. One suspects that the Clay Math Institute will find a way around this bind.
Posted by lacey at December 30, 2003 09:50 AM