num_pages: 320
description: Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished and enigmatic Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of history-influencing mathematical conundrums. By the author of Kepler's Conjecture.
language: English
title: Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
publisher: Dutton Adult