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Since 1904, mathematicians have been stumped by one of the math world’s most difficult problems, a conjecture by French scientist Henri Poincare about the properties of three-dimensional space.
Now a British math expert, Martin Dunwoody, claims to have solved the problem.
“This is the first serious effort on any of our seven problems,” said Arthur Jaffe, president of the Clay Mathematics Institute, a non-profit group founded two years ago to identify the seven toughest math problems and offer $1 million for their solutions.
But before the institute will grant the award to Dunwoody, the solution, which has been challenged and is still undergoing revision, must withstand an international peer review process of at least two years.
