The drama of a mathematical proof

An article in this week’s New Yorker describes the human drama behind a proof of the Poincare conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Problems. The article is unsparing of several mathematicians of Chinese origin.

Notes added on 27 August.

• Perelman turns down Fields Medal.
  
• Here is an excellent article on the proof in the New York Times.
  
• See the comment posted by Ting Zhu.

Meshfree Methods blog

A blog dedicated to Meshfree Methods has recently been set up by the USACM Specialty Committee on Meshfree Methods. This was inspired in no small part by the work of Professor Zhigang Suo and colleagues on the Applied Mechanics blogs.