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Poincare Conjecture
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We explore a famous problem which shaped 20th century topology.
In this short clip the Fields medallist tells us about his bad marks at school and his fascinatingly eclectic work as a mathematician.
Meet some strange shapes in the fourth dimension and find out why this dimension is different from all others.
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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.
The mathematics of Grigori Perelman may earn him a million dollars, if no holes are found in his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture.