Where by "dummies", I mean "readers with a background of at least 1 year of mathematics graduate school" (so I exaggerate slightly). Terence Tao has created an interesting, relatively brief document providing an outline of what Grigori Perelman's proof of Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture (which implies the Poincaré Conjecture) is all about, in terms that readers with a basic understanding of algebraic topology and differential geometry can understand (not that those outside this relatively small set of individuals are likely to care anyway).
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