Should Dr. Perelman Be Awarded Full Credit for Proving Poincares Conjecture?
conjecture were estranged Russian mathematician Dr. Grigory Perelman, and Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. Both sides claimed to have solved the problem in its entirety, although the evidence is possibly skewed as to who actually completed the proof first. Dr. Perelman submitted a partial proof of the problem while Yau filled in the gaps in Perelman’s paper. The argument is the debate over who receive credit for the proof of the Poincare conjecture, Yau or Perelman. The Poincare conjecture was submitted to the mathematics community more than a hundred years ago by a man by the name of Henri Poincare. The question was proposed to the world and future mathematicians, and people have been trying to solve it every year since it was introduced. Many people have called Poincare the founder of topology or “rubber-sheet geometry.” Topology is the study of intrinsic properties of spaces. A topologist sees a bagel and a coffee cup in the same perspective. Until recent years, a man named Ric
