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Perfect Rigour : A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime by Perelman, Grigori;Gessen, Masha is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman was awarded the prize this year - and declined the money. Journalist Masha Gess

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Author
Perelman, Grigori;Gessen, Masha
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781848313019
Category
biography
Subjects
Mathematics, Memoir, Science
Updated
2026-03-24

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