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Jan 7, 2021 · Image by George M. Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Grigori Perelman is a 54-year-old Russian math genius who solved one of the world’s most challenging mathematical problems. However, he not only turned down a prestigious medal but also a $1 million prize that went with it.
Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal or the $ 1 000 000 Clay Prize.
Dec 13, 2009 · Without a shred of help from Perelman himself, she charts the mathematician’s rise from quiet super-student to prickly genius, suggesting that the very perfectionism that fueled his work may ...
Aug 28, 2006 · Grigory Perelman is indeed reclusive. He left his job as a researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, in St. Petersburg, last December; he has few friends; and he lives with his mother...
Mar 27, 2011 · Sat 26 Mar 2011 20.05 EDT. B y any standards, Grigori Perelman makes a marvellous subject for a biography. Arguably the world's greatest mathematician, he worked out a solution to one of the...
Nov 18, 2009 · Grigori Perelman: The genius in hiding. By Jennifer Ouellette. 18 November 2009. IN NOVEMBER 2002, an obscure Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman caused a sensation in the...
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Перельма́н, English pronunciation: /ˈpɛrɨlmən/ PERR-il-mən; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.
