Re: [math-fun] New Yorker article on the Poincare' crowd

Dan Asimov wrote:

Btw, I'm totally convinced the experts' consensus is that the Poincare conjecture is now fully settled in the affirmative; I'm not sure, however, whether the same is true of the Thurston geometrization conjecture.

The NYer article says that Perelman feels he got geometrization ("That is correct. Grisha"), and the title of Yau's paper implies the same. There are also quotes from mathematicians mourning the closure of "an entire field of mathematics". Perhaps "Manifold Destiny" should be subtitled "3-Space Just Got Boring". Is this true, though? I thought the NY Times article did a better job at explaining the concepts, but I don't know much more about it than what I need for hammering out sheet metal. Hilarie