up. "These guys were great," says Gabai. "They were like hounds after the stag, right on the jugular of poor Rourke. They just chewed him up." Says Kazez, "By the end, Rourke was admitting it was a disaster. He said that he's sure the manuscript is incomplete, which isn't the appropriate sort of stat

they can do in specific settings, and then shows one after another, how they 7 EFTA00586681 nail the proof down for all possible cases. But, says Kazez, "in Rourke's proof the last fifty pages didn't have a single clearly stated lemma, proposition, or theorem. It just went to hell." Rourke defended