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

256 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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In 2006, an eccentric 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 2...

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