8月22日的国际数学家大会(the International Congress of Mathematicians)上,授予了佩雷尔曼博士最高荣誉——菲尔兹奖(the Fields medal),以表彰他对解决庞加莱猜想做出的贡献。 时过三年以后,佩雷尔曼对庞加莱猜想的证明已被证实了正确性。
On August 22nd the International Congress of Mathematicians awarded Dr Perelman its highest honour, the Fields medal, for his solution which, having stood for three years, is now taken as correct.
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一旦证明猜想是伪命题,那将使人们对现代数学的许多部分产生质疑——当然也包括基于庞加莱猜想的一切。
Proving the conjecture false would have cast doubt on much of modern mathematics-and everything that depends on it.
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佩雷尔曼博士利用广为人知的“瑞奇流(Ricci flow)”这样一个热方程来证明了庞加莱猜想。
Dr Perelman proved Poincaré's conjecture by taking an equation normally used to model heat dissipation in three-dimensional objects, known as Ricci flow.