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What’s Grigori Perelman Up to These Days?
Some time ago (nearly 4 years ago!) we told you about Grigori Perelman and his solution to Thurston’s Geometrization Conjecture and the Poincaré Conjecture. And we later told you how he turned… more →
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Book Review: Ricci Flow and the Poincaré Conjecture
wrote 2 months ago: Ricci Flow and the Poincaré Conjecture John Morgan, Columbia University, New York, NY, and Gang Tian … more →
A Slightly More User Friendly Post - Some (Real) Math Problems and Ideas That Get Your Mind Running
wrote 2 months ago: Obviously, some of the tough and deep math may not be fit for every person, so I decided to write a … more →
Ode to the Power of The Fingers
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wrote 4 months ago: Recently while at a jewelry auction, a lady standing nearby exclaimed, “I would NEVER wear ANYTHING … more →
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? Henri Poincare
wrote 4 months ago: Perfect rigor : a genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century Boston : Houghton Mifflin … more →
Mounting or Solving Open Problems
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wrote 5 months ago: Programs not programs src Richard Hamilton is the mathematician who laid out the route that eventual … more →
What's Grigori Perelman Up to These Days?
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wrote 8 months ago: Some time ago (nearly 4 years ago!) we told you about Grigori Perelman and his solution to Thurston … more →
You Could Be the Next Winner!
wrote 8 months ago: Are you interested in a chance to win a cool $1 million? Well, you could try playing the lottery, b … more →
MATHEMATICA!
wrote 10 months ago: 20 Things you didn’t know about math (until now). by Discover Magazine 1 The median score for … more →
Mid-April 2012 Comics Review
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve gotten enough comics, I think, to justify a fresh roundup of mathematics appearances in t … more →
Inception's Math Has No Mal-Function
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wrote 1 year ago: Grigori Perelman It ain’t no Poincaré Conjecture, but figuring out if the movie Inception … more →
Hyperbolic Christmas Ornaments
wrote 1 year ago: Fancy some Christmas ornaments that defy conventional Euclidean geometry? In these animations, creat … more →
Book Review No.15 - Perfect Rigour by Masha Gessen
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wrote 1 year ago: I discovered ‘Perfect Rigour’ by Masha Gessen during one of my random book browsing sess … more →
Russian math genius answers $1 million question
wrote 2 years ago: Reclusive Russian math genius Grigory Perelman finally explained his rejection of a $1 million prize … more →
Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem, Then Refuses Million Dollar Prize
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wrote 2 years ago: The Poincare conjecture was a seemingly unsolvable theorem that was first proposed in 1904. Dealing … more →
Jesus Walked on the Water...
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wrote 2 years ago: And the Russian mathematician wondered how he did it… The reclusive Russian maths genius who s … more →
Mike Freedman on SPC4
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wrote 2 years ago: Mike Freedman gave a talk last week at Berkeley titled “(Still) thinking about the smooth 4-di … more →
Understanding Poincaré Conjecture
wrote 2 years ago: Image via Wikipedia Introduction & Statement of Poincaré Conjecture In 1904, the french Mathemat … more →
Comic: How to get help with the command line
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wrote 2 years ago: The other day, I made a comment on a Spiked Math comic. I thought about modifying said comic to make … more →
Geometrization is fashionable
wrote 2 years ago: I have talked about some of the major open problems in mathematics with my MTH 101 students (either … more →
