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Perfect rigour: a genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2009 Icon Books Ltd. LondonDescription: xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781848312388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.92 G3P3
Summary: 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 2000, 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 was awarded the prize this year Danddeclinedthemoney.(http://www.iconbooks.co.uk)
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 28-A / Slot 1351 (0 Floor, East Wing) General Stacks 510.92 G3P3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PS 172855

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 2000, 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 was awarded the prize this year Danddeclinedthemoney.(http://www.iconbooks.co.uk)

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