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- He labored in relative obscurity until 1994, when he shot to mathematical fame with his proof of a topological conundrum known as the soul conjecture, and was offered positions at both Stanford and Princeton in the US.
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Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Перельман, IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ pʲɪrʲɪlʲˈman] ⓘ; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology.
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Apr 6, 2007 · Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician who was awarded—and declined—the Fields Medal in 2006 for his work on the Poincare conjecture and Fields medalist William Thurston’s geometrization conjecture. He was the first mathematician ever to decline the Fields Medal.
In 2003, the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman (Григо́рий Перельма́нborn, born 1966) proved the Poincaré Conjecture, which, until then, was one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics.
May 30, 2024 · Between the 1990s and the first years of the 21st century, Perelman proved conjectures that had fixated mathematicians over the last decades. And yet, when he was offered the Fields Medal, regarded as the equivalent to the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, he declined the prize.
Quick Info. Born. 13 June 1966 Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia) Summary. Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal or the $1000000 Clay Prize. View six larger pictures. Biography.
Nov 18, 2009 · IN NOVEMBER 2002, an obscure Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman caused a sensation in the mathematical community when he posted the first in a series of papers proving the most...
Jan 16, 2014 · The Poincaré Conjecture, formulated in 1904 by the French mathematician Poincaré, remained one of the most challenging open questions in the twentieth century, until it was proven in 2002 by...
