Perfect Rigour
A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime
by Masha Gessen
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A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius 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 1998, 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 will likely be awarded the prize this
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Mathematicians, biography, Poincare conjecture, Mathematicians, Poincaré conjecture, Biography, Perelman, Grigori, -- 1966-, Mathematicians -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography, New York Times reviewed, Mathematics -- Formulae, Mathematicians -- Russia -- Biography, Perelman, Grigori, -- 1966, Poincare conjecture, Poincař conjecture, Russia (federation), biographyPeople
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Kanzen naru shōmei: hyakumandoru o kyohi shita tensai sūgakusha
2012, Bungei Shunjū
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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime
2011, Icon Books
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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime
2011, Icon Books, Limited, Icon Books Company
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Sovershennai Ła strogost £: Grigorii Perel £man : genii i zadacha tysi Łacheletii Ła
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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Perfect rigor: a genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century
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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.
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