Mathematics
- August 6 - Polynomial-time primality test published.
- November 12 - Grigori Perelman posts the first of a series of eprints to the arXiv, in which he proves the century old Poincaré conjecture.
Read more about this topic: 2002 In Science
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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