Re: What's going on this decade?

From: kevin.osborne (kevin.osborne@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:26:12 MDT


> The Poincare conjecture was apparently proven this decade.

looks like Dark Matter is a done deal as well:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/media/paper.pdf

layman's explanation here:
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/08/a_stunning_demonstration_of_wh.php

FWIW the NYT has an article on the Poincare Solution:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html (see
http://bugmenot.com/view/www.nytimes.com if you need an NYT login)



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