Comment Re:Great. Still waiting for peer review.. (Score 1) 288
The Poincare Conjecture, along with several other notorious famous conjectures (Riemann Hypothesis, for example), have the nasty problem of making people who try proving it to use it as an assumption somewhere within the proof. Basically, the PC is logically equivalent to several other statements. Somewhere along the proof, in many prior failed cases, the author uses one of the other statements and then somehow claims, voila! PC is proved. Then, someone shows where the mistake by showing where the equivalent statement is used as an assumption.
Other conjectures, like the twin prime and such (most are number theory based) are so enigmatic that no one has even a slightest inkling on how to proceed.
Other conjectures, like the twin prime and such (most are number theory based) are so enigmatic that no one has even a slightest inkling on how to proceed.
