Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture, one of maths' greatest mysteries, only to reject fame, fortune, and a ...
Who would turn down a $1 million prize for solving a math problem? Perhaps the smartest man in the world. Three months ago, a famously impoverished Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was ...
The winner, Grigori Perelman, refused the Clay prize ... whose work laid the foundation on which he built his proof, Richard Hamilton. Math, all sciences, and arguably all human inquiries are ...