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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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9 editions · 4 languages- Hardcover · English · 2011Perfect RigourIcon Books · 256 pages · 9781848312388
- Ebook · English · 2011Perfect RigourIcon Books · 275 pages · 9781848313095
- Other · English · 2011Perfect RigourIcon Books, Limited · 256 pages · 9781848313019
- Other · English · 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299886506
- Other · English · 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 256 pages · 9780547427560
- Other · English · 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 242 pages · 9780151014064
Mathematicians, biographyPoincare conjectureMathematiciansPoincaré conjectureBiographyPerelman, Grigori, -- 1966-New York Times reviewedMathematics -- Formulae