Monday, June 05, 2006
Chinese mathematicians proved Poincare conjecture
Two Chinese mathematicians, Zhu Xiping and Cao Huaidong, have put the final pieces together in the solution to the puzzle that has perplexed scientists around the globe for more than a century. The two scientists have published a paper in the latest U.S.-based Asian Journal of Mathematics , providing complete proof of the Poincare Conjecture promulgated by French mathematician Henri Poincare in 1904.
Until its recent resolution, it was widely considered to be the most important unsolved problem in topology. It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a $1,000,000 prize for a correct solution.
Eh, oh. Once upon time American mathematicians used to prove solely almost unprovable theorems. However, that was the case only before the first oil shock in seventies. Now it is more appealing to guess and calculate rising oil prices and the interests of falling US economy.
Anyway, if only Albert Einstein might be alive, that will be entirely his proof. No one better has hided its references than he used to. By the way, above mentioned Mr. Henry Poincare was the man who invented relativity as a group property and coined himslef the term Relativity, regardless of publicity "knows" about it. Einstein somewhat later still used the term electrodynamics of moving bodies.
I admit now, the greatest modern mind might be easily Henri Poincare, a French genius, seems no one is comparable. But, alas , I am not a mathematician to give verdicts like that. Yeah and why he is virtually unknown? Two things. He died prematurely (very important condition for the mathematicians) , and secondly it was internal French matter, about the year1905, when the French Church separated from the state.
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