The Poincaré Conjecture

Explantion of the Poincaré Conjecture from ABC science program Catalyst

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• Poincare
• Conjecture
• Catalyst
• Maths
• Donut
• Grigori
• Perelman

[cheechcam]

@mathemaniac "A simply connected closed 3-manifold sounds complicated but trust me, once you've seen one you've seen them all." G. Perelman

[namehisname]

@behnamasid Because these guys live on math, they are so into math that they basically dont care about money.

[pratish2005]

What the fuck is the matter with the presenter of the show? This is a serious question and he's behaving like a 5 yr. old annoying kid. Specially at the end. Real moron. Deliberately trying to be stupid..

[UnitedPebbles]

Ok, it is official. The mathematics field is the cheapest for humankind to advance, until then we can then proceed to physics and then chemistry. But being laissez-faire since it is your money and your country, proceed as you wish.

I just assumed the Russians have concluded the same thing and so have focus many of it public funded young minds in field of mathematics so one day they can triumph the world at something, again.

[juujuuuujj]

@84Drumcircle I said "people who care too much about money", i.e. greedy people. I'm not talking about people who just want the resources to raise a happy family. It's unfortunate that you would conflate the two.

[TheAcFox]

I'm in six grade maybe one day I will have the slightest idea of what any of this means

[84Drumcircle]

@juujuuuujj

They way society is structured I dont think it is possible to not care about money or economics. Sadly it has become a means of survival, so it can get pretty serious when you family of four can't eat because you don't care too much about money. Apparently, and luckly in his case for now he doesn't care, or possibly need the money yet.....

[SonOfNye]

He did not except the prize based on a very primal code of honor. Richard Hamliton recognized that the way to settle the conjecture was via the Ricci Flow, he just never figured out how to do it. Perelman felt that Hamilton deserved at least equal claim to the prizes offered, he believed his work was no more special than Hamilton's realizing the way to solve the problem. He felt that the praises to him were unwarranted because of this, he has what I would call a strong sense of justice.

[jjojjorge]

@SushantBhargav Undoubtedly; a clueless person. In his own life (Representations to him and of himself) he very likely perceives himself as smart, fun, etc, but in reality he is merely confident of his insecurities, evidenced by his fears and bitterness.

[jjojjorge]

@pratish2005 That is because he is a hairy kid ... justly as the average person of either to-day or past generations; with small variabilities in favour of to-day's; meaning that humanity always gets better ... Life itself is the basic analogy to represent spiritual degrees.

[scrtg]

To simply give an air of plausibility.

[scrtg]

Which is really interesting is that the Chinese guy who claimed he was the first to solve the problem hasn't published his proof either. Was his role to simply an air of plausibility to the whole affair. Well, I am just wondering..