An Intro to Perelman

The Poincare Conjecture says "hey, you've got this alien blob that can ooze its way out of the hold of any lasso you tie around it? Then that blob is just an out-of-shape ball". Perelman and Hamilton proved this fact by heating the blob up, making it sing, stretching it like hot mozzarella and chopping it into a million pieces. In short, the alien ain't no bagel you can swing around with a string through his hole. Transparencies: Transparencies (page by page in jpg) If you have any difficulty downloading these jpg files, please email me and I will send them to you (sormanic at member.ams.org). If an artist would like to help me render these images in a more beautiful manner, please contact me. They are drawn using a tablet PC bought with a PSCCUNY grant using Corel Draw software. Mathematicians may feel free to use these transparencies when giving undergraduate presentations. Keep in mind it is designed to be a 40 minute talk for math majors so each transparency should be dwelled on un

The Poincare Conjecture says "hey, you've got this alien blob that can ooze its way out of the hold of any lasso you tie around it? Then that blob is just an out-of-shape ball". Perelman and Hamilton proved this fact by heating the blob up, making it sing, stretching it like hot mozzarella and chopping it into a million pieces. In short, the alien ain't no bagel you can swing around with a string through his hole. Transparencies: Transparencies (page by page in jpg) If you have any difficulty downloading these jpg files, please email me and I will send them to you (sormanic at member.ams.org).