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Perfect rigor by Masha Gessen · Booklabria

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First published: 2009
Editions: 9 in 4 languages

Synopsis

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: Biography
Mathematics
Mathematicians
Mathematicians, biography
Russia, biography
Set in: Russia
Time: Late 20th Century

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9 in 4 languages

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English6 Hebrew1 Japanese1 Russian1

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