[SunkenCiv]

another snip, and a non-ping to the non-existent string theory ping list:

The Emperor of Math
by Dennis Overbye
New York Times
October 17, 2006

In a speech later that month during the string theory conference, Dr. Yau said, "In Perelman's work, many key ideas of the proofs are sketched or outlined, but complete details of the proofs are often missing," adding that the Cao-Zhu paper had filled some of these in with new arguments... [Yau] denied that he had ever said there were gaps in Dr. Perelman's work. "I said it is not understood by all people," he said. "That is why it takes three more years." As a "leading geometer," Dr. Yau said he had a duty to dig out the truth of the proof.

cgk, I forgot to mention this list, but only because it doesn't exist.

[snarks_when_bored]

Great mathematician though he his, Yau has made a devilish bargain:  in exchange for glory in his homeland, he assists that homeland in its aspirations to dominate his adopted land.