Re: The Times on the Poincare Conjecture

From: Gib Bogle <bogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:02:08 +1200

victor_meldrew_666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

According to that august journal of record, The Times,
The Poincare conjecture is

Simply stated, it posits that an object such as a pear
or a banana is deformable into a sphere, whereas a bagel
or American-style doughnut with a hole in the middle is not.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2314987.html

If I'd known it was that easy, I'd have had a crack at it myself!

Was it Einstein who said something about explanations having to be as simple as possible, but no simpler?
.

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