Million Dollar Prize Awarded Mar 19, 2010

A couple of years ago, Grigoriy Perelman announced his proof of the Poincare Conjecture, and posted the final piece of the puzzle onto the arXiv (http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/author/G.Perelman). Today, the Clay Math Institute announced that Perelman's proof has been vetted, is correct, and has accordingly awarded the first of the Millenium Prizes. You can read more about Perelman's Theorem and the Millenium Prizes here (http://www.claymath.org/poincare/).
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