Author

Publication

2011-03-01 - Icon Books

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101848312385
  • ISBN-139781848312388
  • Better World Books9781848312388
  • Open LibraryOL27656350M

Classifications

  • LCCQA29
  • DDC510.92
  • DDCB
and 1 more
  • LCCQA29.P6727 G47 2009

Description

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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