| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780151014064 | | Publisher: Hough | | Publish Date: 11/11/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211280864 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68799 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6L x 1T |
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| | | In 2006, eccentric Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved one of the world''s greatest intellectual puzzles. For this feat, Perelman will be awarded a prize of one million dollars, and he will likely decline it. Gessen investigates his gripping yet tragic story of genius.
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In 2002, a virtually unknown Russian man named Grigori Perelman shocked the science world by solving the Poincare conjecture, a topological puzzle which had baffled mathematicians for almost 100 years. Such an achievement merited prominent publication, public celebration and critical acclaim, but Perelman simply published his results on the Internet and later refused to accept the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, turned down a prize of one million dollars, and finally retired from mathematics. Masha Gessen, who was born and raised in Russia, presents the first in-depth examination of the Perelman saga, including an extensive biography of the troubled genius, whose astounding capacity for logical thought likely caused his self-imposed isolation. Featuring interviews with dozens of Perelman's former teachers and colleagues, as well as a lucid analysis of his breakthrough, Gessen's absorbing study goes inside the secluded world of Soviet math and science, showing how Perelman's rigorous education cultivated his genius and his social dysfunction.
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