Puzzle-solver could win $1 million prize

April 12, 2002

A researcher from Southampton University says he has solved a question that has troubled mathematicians for a century.

Martin Dunwoody has submitted his proof of Poincare's Conjecture. If correct, he will claim a $1 million (£700,000) prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Boston.

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