John Morgan is enjoying his new found popularity thesedays not unlike a hollywood celebrity. He is showing off his book with Gang Tian on the Poincare conjecturelike he is an expert. But truth be told, he actually lacks even the most basic understanding of the work of Perelman and Hamilton. Only Morgan could pull off such a con job. He spent the last few years trying to understand Hamilton's Ricci flow, but all he was able to do was working through the rudiments of curvature calculus, according to one of his department colleagues. It is clear that Gang Tian did most of the technical part of their book; Morgan did only the PR part.
Morgan publicly attacked the other guys: KL and CZ, so he and Tian could claim equal credit for "explicating" the proof, even though their book appeared much later. Some explicating...
Now that Morgan and Tian have claimed their sweet victory, they seem to be turning on each other like two stooges on a wrestling team. Tian is actually going around bitterly complaining that Morgan is suddenly becoming so popular and is taking all credit for something he does not even understand.
The other guys, KL and GZ, are understandably upset. Why? Morgan-Tian took some of their important ideas without any acknowledgement. E.g. the uniqueness ofcanonicalneighborhood, which is crucial.
Hm... how times have changed at Princeton and Columbia...
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