The Politics of Mathematics
by Hugo van der Sanden at 13:19 25/08/06 (Blogs::Hugo)
Who gets credit for solving the Poincaré Conjecture?
This article is a fascinating, in-depth study of the history and characters of people involved in solving the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven $1,000,000 "Millenium Prize Problems".

No technical knowledge required.

Hugo

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