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Famous Modern Math Problems: The Poincaré Conjecture
One of the most famous topology problems ever formulated .
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In another installment of my series about modern mathematical problems, today I would like to discuss one of the most iconic problems in the last few centuries of mathematics. The Poincaré Conjecture eluded mathematicians for over 80 years and was even included in the Clay Mathematics Institute’s list of $1 million prize problems.
Henri Poincaré is considered one of the brightest mathematicians of the beginning of the last century and still regarded as the father of modern topology. In 1904, Poincaré formulated his most famous problem. The Poincare conjecture is related to the field of manifolds or…
