Perfect rigor

Masha Gessen First published 2009

About this book

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.

Subjects

biography
mathematicians
mathematicians, biography
mathematicians -- russia -- biography
mathematicians -- russia (federation) -- biography
mathematics -- formulae
new york times reviewed
perelman, grigori, -- 1966
perelman, grigori, -- 1966-
poincař conjecture
poincare conjecture
poincaré conjecture
russia (federation), biography