Poincaré's prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles/ George G. Szpiro.
Publication details: New York: Dutton, c2007.Description: ix, 309 p.; 22 cmISBN:- 9780525950240
- 0525950249
- 510.76 S998p
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of mathematical conundrums.
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