Editing 1982 in science (section)

==Mathematics==
* Michael Freedman proves the [[Poincaré conjecture]] in dimensions equal to 4.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=93}}</ref>
* [[Gerhard Frey]] draws attention to the property of the [[elliptic curve]] which becomes known as the [[Frey curve]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Frey|first1=Gerhard|title=Rationale Punkte auf Fermatkurven und getwisteten Modulkurven|year=1982|journal=[[Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik]]|volume=331|pages=185–191}}</ref>
* [[Brazil]]ian [[mathematician]] Celso Costa gives a mathematical description of [[Costa's minimal surface]], the first embedded [[minimal surface]] discovered in more than a century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Costa|first=Celso|title=Imersões mínimas completas em <math>\mathbb{R}^3</math> de gênero um e curvatura total finita|year=1982}} Ph.D. Thesis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.</ref>
* [[Alexander Merkurjev]] and [[Andrei Suslin]] prove the [[norm residue isomorphism theorem]] in Milnor K2-theory for the case {{nowrap|1=''n'' = 2}} and ℓ arbitrary, with applications to  the [[Brauer group]].