Sunday, April 11, 2010

More about the mathematician Perelman

He Conquered the Conjecture by John Allen Paulos in the New York Review of Books is a review of Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen a biography of the Russian mathematician Grigoriy Perelman who recently solved a long-standing problem in topology, the Poincaré conjecture.

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