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Formal Sciences & Matter / Mathematics

Poincaré Conjecture Proved

Perelman proves (2002-03) the Poincaré conjecture with Hamilton's Ricci flow, the first Millennium Problem to be solved.

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He posted three preprints on arXiv, then declined the Fields Medal (2006) and the Clay Prize (2010). The proof classifies three-dimensional shapes and shows how geometric flows can tame singularities.

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