Math without Laughing

Poincaré Prediction (1x5)

Fecha de emisión: Ago 10, 2022

Panther Takahiro Ogata explains difficult mathematical problems in a very serious manner in "Math without Laughing". This time it is "Poincaré Conjecture". What is the shape of the universe? We tackle the hard problem of topology! Poincaré was a genius mathematician active in France at the end of the 19th century. There is an important mathematical prediction he made before his death. However, Poincaré himself could not prove it, and for a century afterward, mathematicians around the world were also unable to solve it. To put Poincaré's prediction in a simple way, is there any way for us in the universe to know whether the shape of the universe is roughly round or not? In other words, how do we know if the shape of the universe is roughly round or not? This is the bizarre story of how the century-old problem was solved by a Russian mathematician in 2006.