The answer to our Geo Quiz today is Nancy, France, birthplace of French mathematician Henri Poincare. Poincare posed a mathematical problem known as the Poincare Conjecture. Now a mysterious Russian mathematician has solved it. Anchor Marco Werman finds out morefrom Saint Petersburg Times reporter Galina Stolyarova.
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