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POPS80-Year-Old Indian Math Mystery Solved A few months into 2007 and already another long-standing mathematical mystery has been more-or-less put to rest. It will be hard to top Perelman's stunning proof of the legendary Poincaré Conjecture from last year, but in math and science, you never know when the next breakthrough will come. (If you haven't already, read up on some of the incredible anecdotes about the life of the Indian genius, Ramanujan. He was truly one of a kind.)
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POPS"Perelman's Song" - A Mathematical-Fiction Short Story The audience for "Math-Fi" may not be large, but author Tina Chang obviously had a lot of fun with this cute story and managed to elucidate some of the topological ideas involved in Perelman's recent landmark proof of the longstanding Poincaré conjecture. For background see Rob's clip: Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery .
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