The never-knowingly-undersold Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that a team of Chinese scientists has solved Poincaré's Conjecture, one of the longest-outstanding mathematical problems that is ...

The problem’s been solved … but the sweet treats were declined. Back to the Cutting Board MILLENNIUM PRIZE SERIES: The Millennium Prize Problems are seven mathematics problems laid out by the Clay ...

The universe is finite but doesn't have walls, apparently, which means that it must be bent or curved in some ingenious, twisty way. But how? In 1904 the French mathematician Henri Poincaré attempted ...

Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, has been touring US universities describing his work in a series of papers not yet ...

World top mathematician Richard Hamilton has recognized the work of Chinese mathematicians on giving a complete proof of the century-old puzzle of Poincare Conjecture. Foreign member of the Chinese ...

Since it was proposed by polymath H. Poincare' in 1904, who sought to mathematically define the topology of a sphere, mathematicians had sought to prove the theorem. For more than a century, the best ...

One of the toughest problems in maths may have been solved by the Russian scientist Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He put forward his solution to the Poincare Conjecture ...

In early April 2002, Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg gave a series of public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the lectures he ...