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Perfect rigor

Perfect rigor

by Masha Gessen

2009Mathematicians, biographyPoincare conjectureMathematiciansPoincaré conjectureBiography
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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.

Themes & subjects

Mathematicians, biographyPoincare conjectureMathematiciansPoincaré conjectureBiographyPerelman, Grigori, -- 1966-
First published 2009

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Setting

Russia (Federation)late 20th century

About the author

Masha Gessen

1967

Russian-American journalist and author

Author

Masha Gessen

First published

2009

Pages

263

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

9

Languages

English, Hebrew, Japanese

Publisher

Icon Books

ISBN

9789655450798

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