Perfect Rigour
Subtitle: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781848313095
Subjects: Mathematics -- Formulae; Mathematicians -- Russia -- Biography; Perelman, Grigori, -- 1966
Description: A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius 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 1998, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman will likely be awarded the prize this
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title page; Copyright; By same author; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Endnotes;