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Old 29-03-2010, 03:44 PM
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And for those of you who don't know what the Poincare conjecture is:

the Poincaré conjecture states that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere (in a topologist's sense) , where a three-sphere is simply a generalization of the usual sphere to one dimension higher. More colloquially, the conjecture says that the three-sphere is the only type of bounded three-dimensional space possible that contains no holes.

Sounds fascinating, but I have absolutely no idea what this means.

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