256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Masha Gessen: Perfect Rigor (2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
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- 978-0-547-42756-0
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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.
Subjects
- Mathematicians, biography
- Poincare conjecture