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| Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" |
Let us go and make our visit.
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On Tuesday evening, the schedule says "Prof. Yau present his new
research result," which presumably will be about the proof of the
Poincare conjecture.
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| Would it have been worth while, |
To have bitten off the matter
with a smile, |
To have squeezed the universe
into a ball |
To roll it toward some
overwhelming question....
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Yau rated the conjecture as one of the major mathematical puzzles of the 20th Century.
"The conjecture is that if in a closed three-dimensional space,
any closed curves can shrink to a point
continuously, this space can be deformed to a sphere," he said.
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