John Lott (mathematician)
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John Lott is a Professor of Mathematics
at the University of California, Berkeley
. He is working on Ricci flow
.
He and Bruce Kleiner
of Yale University
make up one of three teams formed for the purpose of verifying Grigori Perelman
's proof of the Poincaré conjecture
. They posted a paper on the arXiv in May 2006 that filled in the details of Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture.
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. He is working on Ricci flow
Ricci flow
In differential geometry, the Ricci flow is an intrinsic geometric flow. It is a process that deforms the metric of a Riemannian manifold in a way formally analogous to the diffusion of heat, smoothing out irregularities in the metric....
.
He and Bruce Kleiner
Bruce Kleiner
Bruce Alan Kleiner is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and topology and geometric group theory.He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Wu-Yi Hsiang. He is now Professor of Mathematics at New York University.Kleiner has...
of Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
make up one of three teams formed for the purpose of verifying Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture...
's proof of the Poincaré conjecture
Poincaré conjecture
In mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture is a theorem about the characterization of the three-dimensional sphere , which is the hypersphere that bounds the unit ball in four-dimensional space...
. They posted a paper on the arXiv in May 2006 that filled in the details of Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture.
External links
- http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~lott/