Back in March, when the Clay Mathematics Institute announced that its first $1-million Millennium Prize had been awarded to Grigori Perelman, a brilliant but reclusive Russian mathematician, the ...
Grigory Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture in 2002-2003 and turned down a $1 million prize awarded to him NEW YORK, May 31. /TASS/. US entrepreneur Elon Musk has admired Russian mathematician ...
Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer. All told, more ...
Grigory Perelman, a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia, won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century. The only thing left ...
Grigori Perelman, the reclusive Russian mathematician who discovered a way to solve a mathematical problem known as the Poincaré conjecture but ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia -- and who won $1 million for solving a problem that ...