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royalfan5
8/23/2006, 03:14 PM
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/22/math.genius.ap/

and turns down cash reward. The thought of the math required to solve that makes my head hurt.

JohnnyMack
8/23/2006, 03:15 PM
Rasputin's great great great great grandson is like smart and stuff.

Kim Jong il
8/23/2006, 03:25 PM
In Soviet Russia, Math Problem Solves You...

http://www.unityworldhq.org/Images/YakovSmirnoff.jpg

Beef
8/23/2006, 03:30 PM
A reclusive 40-year-old Russian scholar has won the math world's version of the Nobel Prize for cracking a conundrum called the Poincare conjecture -- a breakthrough experts say might help determine the shape of the universe.
I thought the universe was shaped like apple pie.

colleyvillesooner
8/23/2006, 03:33 PM
Good Grigory Perelman

sanantoniosooner
8/23/2006, 03:34 PM
I thought the universe was shaped like apple pie.
The whole pie, or a slice?

Or maybe those eggroll looking ones from fast food places?

NormanPride
8/23/2006, 03:36 PM
I bet Ike is going nuts. :D

GDC
8/23/2006, 03:41 PM
The whole pie, or a slice?

Or maybe those eggroll looking ones from fast food places?


http://www.idyllopuspress.com/bigsofa/pie/pie_hostess.gif

TUSooner
8/23/2006, 03:42 PM
All I got out of the article was something about twisting a doughnut and 2 Chinese guys saying THEY really solved the problem. And the guy's eyebrows and whiskers look like they were farked on by Czar Soonerov. No, Czar's farks look more realistic. But then, I can't balance a checkbook.

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3353/vertperelmanapad7.jpg

Beef
8/23/2006, 03:44 PM
The whole pie, or a slice?

Or maybe those eggroll looking ones from fast food places?
Mmmmmm...Chinese apple pie.

toast
8/23/2006, 03:45 PM
but the article didn't mention anything about how one of the Chinese guys only talks like Howard Cossell.

Beef
8/23/2006, 03:48 PM
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6339/leifgarrettinsidesmall011806bw6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
It's amazing what Leif Garret can accomplish when he lays off the drugs.
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3353/vertperelmanapad7.jpg

Ike
8/23/2006, 03:52 PM
I call bogus until our guy IKE verifies.


heh. He did indeed proove the poincare conjecture, but also relied heavily on some other dudes work...so the other dude deserves some of the credit too....

I have no idea how this helps determine the shape of the universe though...that stuff is way over my head.

JohnnyMack
8/23/2006, 03:57 PM
heh. He did indeed proove the poincare conjecture, but also relied heavily on some other dudes work...so the other dude deserves some of the credit too....

I have no idea how this helps determine the shape of the universe though...that stuff is way over my head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture

Lemme be the first to say, "Uuuuuhhhhhhh, what?"

NormanPride
8/23/2006, 04:44 PM
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3353/vertperelmanapad7.jpg

versus


http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8977/beastataryr0.jpg


:eek:

SicEmBaylor
8/23/2006, 04:55 PM
In Soviet Russia, Math Problem Solves You...

http://www.unityworldhq.org/Images/YakovSmirnoff.jpg

Buaahahahaha
You're getting spek.

OUinFLA
8/23/2006, 05:24 PM
I thought the universe was shaped like apple pie.


No, I belive it is more like a taco.

tbl
8/23/2006, 05:37 PM
Just this explanation made my brain cry...

The Poincare conjecture is key to the field of topology, which studies shapes. It basically 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.

GottaHavePride
8/23/2006, 06:23 PM
Just this explanation made my brain cry...

The Poincare conjecture is key to the field of topology, which studies shapes. It basically 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.
Heh. I understood that part. I'm sure the full mathematical definition of the problem would take a page and a half or so.


EDIT: I take it back. It just uses some carefully defined terms.



The original phrasing was as follows:

Consider a compact 3-dimensional manifold V without boundary. Is it possible that the fundamental group of V could be trivial, even though V is not homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere?
Poincaré never declared whether he believed this additional condition would characterize the 3-sphere, but nonetheless, the statement that it does is known as the Poincaré conjecture. Here is the standard form of the conjecture:

Every simply connected (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply_connected) closed (i.e. compact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_space) and without boundary) 3-manifold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold) is homeomorphic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeomorphism) to a 3-sphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-sphere).

Geekboy
8/23/2006, 06:33 PM
Big deal. I figured out the Poincare conjecture years ago. I just didn't tell anybody.

Well.....I did tell the pizza delivery guy a few months back, but that's all.

OUinFLA
8/23/2006, 08:01 PM
the universe is shaped like a pizza?
now I am lost.