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title: Poincare conjecture may have been solved
date: "2003-04-16T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 933
description: I found news that the Poincaré conjecture may have been solved, potentially resolving a century-old problem in topology. The proof involves the Ricci flow and geometric structures on 3-manifolds as proposed by Grigori Perelman.
keywords: [poincaré conjecture, topology, grigori perelman, 3-manifold, ricci flow, mathematics]
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The [Poincare conjecture may have been solved](http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/15/1337219.shtml?tid=134). via Joseph