freecounterpoint: How not to prove the Poincare conjecture

Monday, September 15, 2008

Read the bottom 4 lines on page 2.

Arelcao Akleos said...: Well, Gromov is quite a gent in pointing out those necessary crucial mistakes. Gives Ma something to Chow down on.; 9/15/2008 12:36 AM
Tecumseh said...: Not to be undone, Ming proves yet again the Poincare conjecture, using not much more than first semester graduate school stuff. They keep on coming!; 9/15/2008 1:17 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Gad, not even the saving grace of awkward English extolling those crucial mistakes. So, should I read it? Or is this like "proofs" of the Fermat LT by elementary methods---guaranteed nonsense ?; 9/15/2008 1:33 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: it's a typo: if you put a minus instead of the plus and multiply by the square root of 2, it all works out fine.; 9/15/2008 5:40 AM