Poincaré is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science
Henriette Poincaré (1858-1943), wife of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré
Lucien Poincaré (1862–1920), physicist, brother of Raymond and cousin of Henri
Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), French Prime Minister or President inter alia from 1913 to 1920, cousin of Henri
I just read the latest Scientific American and they have an article about the proof of the Poincaré conjecture. Apparently the proof uses a modified (an extra element) Ricci flow and then the article says that the modification to the Ricci flow pops up in Super String Theory :confused: ...
Are there any updates on this? I don't know how old this is, but I am curious. I thought it was pretty interesting stuff.
-------The Poincare Conjecture, one of the most famous math problems solved
A Russian mathematician claims to have proved the Poincare Conjecture, one of...
Mathematicians are now saying that Grigory Perelman has really solved the conjecture and the proof will be in a paper he will post in the near future. His previous papers on this subject are in the arxiv specal topic Differential Geometry (under mathematics). Keep your eyes on this space!
The New York Times did an article today about a Russian mathemetician who claims to have proved the Poincare Hypothesis. In good Andrew Wiles fashion his proof is actually much further reaching results with the actuall proof of Poincare's Hypothesis dropping out of the larger result. Thought...