<p>Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery </p>
<p>By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: August 15, 2006
New York Times
[EXCERPT]</p>
<p>Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincar</p>
<p>Anybody picking up on the irony of the guy who cracked the code on “the nature of space” disappearing into thin air? It’s like Dr. Doolittle getting mauled by a pit bull. It’s like a plane crashing into Osama Bin Laden’s cave. It’s like Paris Hilton becoming celibate. It’s like Mary-Kate Olsen at an all-you-can-eat buffet. It’s like Skidmore joining the Ivy League.</p>
<p>He didn’t literally “disappear to the woods.” That was the authors way of expressing the fact that Perelman isn’t talking to the media/basically anyone anymore, isn’t responding to emails, and is living in his home in the Russian woods. aka it’s a metaphor, but that isnt too obvious from the clip quoted above.</p>
<p>He’s probably busy hunting for mushrooms.</p>
<p>maybe he went for a stroll in the woods, after an hour decided to run, his foot got caught in a bush. he fell down. started rolling over. approached a hill, fell off it, hung onto a twig for a few minutes. the twig broke and cause him to tumble all the way down to the bottom of the hill. He stood up thinking it was all gone, when out of nowhere a huge log comes and hits him in the head and kills him. hense the disapperance.</p>
<p>I heard about this!!</p>
<p>Stuck On, it’s more likely he stood outside the forest, and when he heard a dead tree falling, he sprinted into the woods to see if it made a noise–and it landed right on top of him. So we’ll probably never know the answer to that age-old question…about whether or not a bear $hi+$ in the woods.</p>
<p>I read that also! =-o and I don’t like reading!</p>