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FTA: "Freedman was 30 when he solved a version of one of the longest-standing problems in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture." Not true, he apparently made c
by mathgenius 12y ago
FTA: "Freedman was 30 when he solved a version of one of the longest-standing problems in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture."
Not true, he apparently made contributions to the poincare conjecture in dimension 4. Also, the article has a link from "poincare conjecture" to a clay institute webpage which is broken.
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- tzs 12y agoThis is what it says about him on the official list of Fields medalists: "Developed new methods for topological analysis of four-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture". The article's statement you quoted is accurate enough to not be "not true".
- mathgenius 12y agoOk, thanks for that. I think I'm done with wikipedia.