True Pynchon character

[David Kipen]

James R. Anderson, Science Correspondent
Tuesday August 22, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

In a major snub to the British maths community, American grammarian James T.
Firefly has proven that math is, in fact, a singular noun.

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http://miseducation.guardian.co.uk/lower/fakenews/tallstory/0,,1855723,00.html




On 8/23/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maverick genius turns down maths 'Nobel'
>
> James Randerson, Science Correspondent
> Tuesday August 22, 2006
> Guardian Unlimited
>
>
> In a major snub to the international maths community, one of the winners
> of
> the discipline's most coveted prize has refused the award.
> The enigmatic and reclusive mathematician Grigory "Grisha" Perelman has
> turned down a Fields medal - an award many consider the Nobel Prize of
> maths.
>
> The Russian genius shocked academics in 2002 with his claim to have solved
> the Poincaré conjecture. The problem, which has stumped the best
> mathematical minds for a century, relates to the possible shapes the
> universe can take.
>
> [...]
>
> He has already publicly refused a $1m (£520,000) prize offered by a
> private
> maths research institute in the US if his proof turns out to be correct.
>
> "He's totally focused on mathematics," said Prof Jaffe. "He does not worry
> at this stage of his life about personal things like wealth and position.
> But he carries it to an extreme which people might describe as a little
> crazy"
>
> The maths world was set abuzz in 2002 by the first instalment of Dr
> Perelman's groundbreaking work on the Poincaré conjecture, a problem set
> out
> by the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Jules Henri
> Poincaré
> in 1904.
>
> The celebrated problem concerns the geometry of multidimensional spaces
> and
> is key to the field of topology, the branch of maths that deals with
> shapes.
>
> full text here
>
> http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1855723,00.html
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