Poincare Conjecture

Tags: Poincare Conjecture : simple connectedness : Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems

The mathematics of Grigori Perelman may earn him a million dollars, if no holes are found in his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture.

Tags: fields medal : Poincare Conjecture : Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems : Geometrisation conjecture

Regular Plus contributor Lewis Dartnell reports on the scramble for million-dollar prizes that made mathematical headlines at the BA Festival of Science in September 2004.

Tags: Poincare Conjecture : Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems : P versus NP : Riemann hypothesis

In the first of our tenth birthday year issues, Plus is celebrating the very best that maths has to offer. If you've ever wanted to fly with the birds and swim with the fishes, get the inside knowledge on great London landmarks or just enjoy going to the movies, then this is the issue for you. And we also say happy birthday to the great mathematician Leonard Euler.

Tags: prime number : Fermat's Last Theorem : fields medal : mathematics in the media : computer science : Poincare Conjecture : physics : search engine : Kepler's conjecture : plus birthday : prime number distribution

One of science's biggest prizes awarded for research into strings and knots

Tags: cosmology : Poincare Conjecture : topology : string theory : knot theory

Lewis Dartnell reports on what made mathematical headlines at the BA Festival of Science.

Tags: Poincare Conjecture : Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems : P versus NP : Riemann hypothesis

The highest honour in maths has been awarded to four mathematicians

Tags: fields medal : Poincare Conjecture