A few months ago, I wrote about the Poincare conjecture, and the fact that it appeared to finally have been solved by a reclusive russian mathematician named Grisha Perelman. Now there's news that another classic problem may have been solved....
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Posted on October 5, 2006 4:31 PM • 33 Comments •
Harald Hanche-Olsen, in the comments on my earlier post about the Principia Mathematica, has pointed out that this months issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society is a special issue in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kurt...
Posted on June 21, 2006 10:40 AM • 2 Comments •
Finally, I have found online, a copy of the magnificent culmination of the 20th century's most ambitious work of mathematics. The last page of Russel and Whitehead's proof that 1+1=2. On page 378 (yes, three hundred and seventy eight!) of...
Posted on June 17, 2006 9:41 PM • 38 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
