Perfect rigor

a genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-101406-4
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OCLC Number:
317917987

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A sociological and anthropological biography of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved Poincare's Conjecture, becoming the first person to win a million-dollar prize (which he refused to accept) from by the Clay Mathematical Institute for solving one of their Millennium Problems.

8 editions

Subjects

  • Perelman, Grigori, -- 1966-
  • Mathematicians -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
  • PoincarĂ© conjecture