{"id":127,"date":"2006-09-19T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-09-19T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T11:54:05","slug":"mathematical-intrigue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Intrigue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?m=200608#125\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematical Intrigue<\/a> below, a lawyer acting for Shing-Tung Yau, a mathematician mentioned in the New Yorker article, has written to the New Yorker disputing a number of points in the article and an &#8216;insulting&#8217; illustration (which is not shown in the online version). You can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctoryau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release<\/a> with links to the letter. The letter is well worth reading. It makes many allegations of errors in the article; I found the following sentence in the letter the most interesting:<\/p>\n<ul><i>The truth is that there was no &#8220;battle&#8221; over who should receive credit for solving the Poincar&eacute; Conjecture*<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>This is highly unusual in mathematics &#8211; yes, people have occasionally argued about who proved what but I can&#8217;t think of a case where lawyers got involved. There&#8217;s even a webcast tomorrow Wednesday 20th September at noon, New York time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsmathematica.net\/archives\/2006\/09\/18\/press-release-from-yaus-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Mathematica&#8217;s article<\/a> on this is worth reading. This one could run and run and is bound to be picked up by newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><small>*<i>The pdf&#8217;s document properties says that content copying or extraction is allowed<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from Mathematical Intrigue below, a lawyer acting for Shing-Tung Yau, a mathematician mentioned in the New Yorker article, has written to the New Yorker disputing a number of points in the article and an &#8216;insulting&#8217; illustration (which is not shown in the online version). You can see the Press Release with links to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}