Monday, August 21, 2006

More on Grigori Perelman

Simon Singh in
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/18/bright_green_security.php
says "I believe that this hairy Russian hermit could be the poster boy who helps create a new generation of mathematical geniuses".
Somebody actually interviewd Perlman recently:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/20/nmaths20.xml
More from the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/20/nmaths120.xml
Wikipedia has continuous updates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Abinandanan at http://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/ gave the link to an aricle
http://www.slate.com/id/2147954/ by Jordan Ellenberg. Ellenberg has other interesting articles on mathematics in the same site. I hope that he will write one on Galois Theory.
Here is a link to talks by John Morgan:
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/lectures/clemens/five_talks.html

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