Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen

Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

Masha Gessen

242 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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In 2006, a 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 telling his ...

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