Professor Yau strikes back at the New Yorker

pedantic bore writes: "The Harvard Crimson has posted an article entitled "Prof Accuses New Yorker of Defamation" in which Professor Yau (esteemed mathematician, winner of the Fields Prize, and practically everything else, but primarily known outside the mathematics/physics communities from a recent New Yorker article about Grigori Perelman's refusal to accept a Fields medal) threatens to sue the New Yorker over what he feels was an unfair characterization of himself and the field of mathematics as a whole. Tune in today (9/20/06) at noon EDT to hear what Yau has to say, or read his letter."