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World's cleverest man turns down $1 million prize after solving one of maths greatest puzzles
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| March 23, 2010
| Will Stewart
Posted on 03/23/2010 12:35:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: oh8eleven
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:45:08 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
Good for him! If he has found happiness then I say, “COOL!”
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:46:16 PM PDT
by
devane617
(VOTE THEM OUT! ALL OF THEM!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The topological conundrum essentially states that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere.That sounds obvious to me. Maybe I should have tackled this problem before Perelman got interested in it. ;)
To: mlocher
To: Free ThinkerNY
"Said to be the world's cleverest man"
Not sounding all that clever to me.
To: Free ThinkerNY
He deciphered the US Tax Code as well. Can’t blame him for refusing the prize.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:49:12 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:49:19 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: clamper1797
So could I.
But can you prove it?
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:49:31 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Ramius
When my son told me he was going to major in math in college, I told him ... great, but no beard. He grew dreadlocks instead. Oy.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:49:41 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Leo Farnsworth
Very smart man. Also knows the damage the money would do to his current life. New friends, new relatives surfacing, and every salesman coming for a handout. Harassment. He knows when he has it good.
Look at most people who win a lottery. They suffer the same problems...blow the cdough and return to their old life with no friends as they were dropped when the windfall came in.
To: clamper1797
I could told them that ... Of course--but the trick is to prove it.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:52:24 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: clamper1797
“The topological conundrum essentially states that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere.
I could told them that ...”
Yeah, no kidding. I was working on the NavierStokes existence and smoothness problem or I’d have clued them in long ago.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:52:54 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere?
Well, duh.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:53:05 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: Ramius
I wonder if any sufficiently advanced genius isnt likely indistinguishable from madness. [Sounds like a line from Robert Heinlein] If true, and given that we're told Obama is the greatest genius in our country's political history . . . .
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:53:46 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: RobRoy
Meanwhile a math genius poindexter may be unable to dribble a basketball more than once or catch a fly ball without it bouncing off his forehead first.
That's why my bro-in-law calls his son to change the TV channels with the remote.........A brilliant oncologist with a photographic memory but is helpless when it comes to manual stuff .............
To: mbarker12474
You don’t need to solve state-space equations to realize the mess we’re in. Once you know negative numbers and addition, you’ll blanch.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:55:24 PM PDT
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: Theo
“Any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere?
Well, duh.”
I’d say more like a new pair of socks.
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:55:43 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Free ThinkerNY
No holes there, ergo- a stretched sphere....
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:55:46 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(QED)
To: InterceptPoint
Always amazes me...He solved it...Hundreds checked it out and agree....which in reality means each was capable of the solution
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posted on
03/23/2010 12:56:39 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
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