2006.07.28 19:29:33 EDT More on Poincaré and Ricci flow Related to my post from yesterday about this, it seems that professor Gang Tian of Princeton and professor John Morgan of Columbia also posted a 473 page monograph titled Ricci Flow and the Poincar&ea
2006.07.27 21:13:03 EDT A short history of the geometrization conjecture (Update 07.28: a further development) It seems that I am a bit late on the bandwagon. My friends Aleks and Aaron, both geometric analysts (at least in some point of their careers), confirmed that they
2006.07.23 16:10:14 EDT Under the messy hair, a messier personal life In addition to the personal papers bequeathed to Hebrew University when he died in 1955, Albert Einstein had some personal correspondance that were kept by his step-daughter Margot Einstein. Those wer
2006.07.14 04:18:08 EDT Journal: Grounds for Sculpture Well, not really a Journal per se, but, well, just think of it as my following that old Kodak (or was is Konica?) ad about writing my diary with a camera... Anyway, today S's mom, whom we shall call O
2006.07.12 00:27:23 EDT Anime Review: Happy Lesson Happy Lesson takes on the oft-used concept of a single guy surrounded by many girls, adds some twist to it, provides plenty of fan service, and gives a decent story. Tout consideré, the entire
2006.07.03 23:51:12 EDT Journal: Cake! It is the Twins' birthday. In T's (not so exact) words: "I've heard that my sister has a birthday coming up, so I baked myself a little cake." We don't have icing at home, so mom first suggested nutel