The article doesn't state the news very well-- this is in fact a very old story. The actual news is buried in somewhere in the 4th paragraph: that the proof has

The article doesn't state the news very well-- this is in fact a very old story. The actual news is buried in somewhere in the 4th paragraph: that the proof has finally been peer-reviewed and confirmed .. but, even then, that news is from March 2010. (Of course, the more interesting story is the one in which Perelman refuses the prize). This proof is especially notable for being the first of the Millennium Problems to be solved. For those interested, here is the Clay Math announcement (the actual news) the article left out: http://www.claymath.org/poincare/millenniumPrizeFull.pdf http://www.claymath.org/poincare/millenniumPrizeFull.pdf (contains an overview of the Poincaré conjecture and a link to Perelman's proof).