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Perfect rigor

Masha Gessen

2009242 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · ENGISBN 9781299886506
  • 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 242 pages · ENGISBN 9780151014064
  • 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780547427560
  • 2011Icon Books, Limited · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781848313019
  • 2011Icon Books · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9781848313095
  • 2011Icon Books · 256 pagesISBN 9781848312388

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.

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