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- In the last year alone Dr. Yau has been engaged in a very public fight with Beijing University, having accused it of corruption, and a New Yorker magazine article portrayed him as trying to horn in on credit for solving the Poincaré conjecture, a famous 100-year-old problem about the structure of space.
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Aug 28, 2006 · David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.
In particular the New Yorker article [47] is highly critical of Yau. Richard S Hamilton, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, wrote the open letter [91] defending Yau. It begins:- I am very disturbed by the unfair manner in which Yau Shing-Tung has been portrayed in the New Yorker article.
The article describes Perelman's disillusionment with and withdrawal from the mathematical community and paints an unflattering portrait of the 1982 Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau. Yau has disputed the accuracy of the article and threatened legal action against the New Yorker .
Oct 17, 2006 · In the last year alone Dr. Yau has been engaged in a very public fight with Beijing University, having accused it of corruption, and a New Yorker magazine article portrayed him as trying to...
The piece sparked controversy, and even the threat of a lawsuit, for its depiction of Hamilton’s close friend, Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, as having sought undeserved credit for cracking the Poincaré.
A well-known August 2006 article in the New Yorker written by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber about the situation brought some professional disputes involving Yau to public attention.
Oct 17, 2006 · And a New Yorker magazine article portrayed him as trying to horn in on credit for solving the Poincaré conjecture, a famous 100-year-old problem about the structure of space. Everybody...
