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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

A tale from the book of mathematics

Back in this post I discussed the importance of the story-like aspect of mathematics. Here's a simply told tale of the classification of Three-manifolds by Shing-Tung Yau:

Ladies and gentlemen, Today I am going to tell you the story of how a chapter of mathematics has been closed and a new chapter is beginning.

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