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...find only one Nobel Prize-winning gem. They also claim that rogue scientists could praise and criticize research in an unfair, un-objective way. But copious empirical evidence indicates that open online communities—including those dedicated to scientific research—have an incredible capacity to self-regulate.Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman’s recent online publication of a proof of the Poincaré conjecture—a century-old question of fundamental importance in topology, the solution to which won Perelman a Fields Medal—is an iconic example of the unlimited possibilities in open online science...

Author: By Patrick JEAN Baptiste and Yifei Chen, S | Title: The Fall of the Scientific Wall | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...Larry Summers, and to a lesser extent, with the vicious show trials of students Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, Eugene Plotkin ’00, and Nick Sylvester ‘04. Below, you’ll also find the story of Shing-Tung Yau, a Harvard mathematician who has recently come under fire in The New Yorker. This is a scrutiny about what it’s like to be branded, and what it’s like to try to win back your name. Careful when you read it, though: most of the professors profiled here were...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Landing On Their Feet | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Acording to Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested in the fusion of math and physics as represented in the age-old Poincare Conjecture. Yau, a Harvard string theorist, had a lot to say on the subject—two of his mentees had just completed a full proof of the Conjecture, which had gone unsolved for a hundred years. He happily agreed to talk to her, according to the New Yorker...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proving Himself | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Accuses New Yorker of Defamation | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...Yorker as saying that Perelman’s proof “was written in such a messy way” that it was incomprehensible. The Harvard professor is promoting another proof written by two of his protégés—a Guangzhou, China-based mathematician and a Lehigh University professor. Yau and his protégés say that their version—while influenced by Perelman—is a “self-contained and complete proof.” Perelman’s backers dispute that claim...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Accuses New Yorker of Defamation | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

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