China's Cao lauds Perelman as 'hero' over maths findings

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MADRID (AFP) — A leading Chinese scholar lauded Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman for his work in solving the Poincare conjecture, a long-standing puzzle which last week earned him the math world's equivalent of a nobel. Cao Huai Dong said Perelman and Colombia professor Richard Hamilton, whose work on the Conjecture paved the way for Perelman, were "heroes." "Hamilton and Perelman did the most important work.

They are giants and our heroes," Cao told organisers of the just-ending 25th annual International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Madrid. "For me there is no doubt that Perelman merits the Fields Medal," said Cao, who -- along with compatriot Zhu Xi Ping -- recently fleshed out Perelman's extremely abbreviated submissions posted on the Internet and who has...