I was reading over the weekend one of the great "millennium math problems" has been solved. For six years seven-million dollars in prize money has been unclaimed at the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass, waiting for someone to solve any of the several problems, the oldest dating back to 1859. It appears, however, that the Poincare conjecture has been proved by a mathematician in Russia. Grigori Perelman's solution has been under scrutiny for four years and appears to hold up.
Now if I could get him to adequately explain the Trinity!
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