Perfect Rigor : A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

from austin.sears

The story of Perelman is an interesting one, and this is a fast read. The author spends a lot of time discussing historical context: what the soviet union was like, who the greatest soviet mathematicians were, how all of the guys were connected. Yes, all of this is the pretext for who Perelman be...

from ewrinc

This book is a story of the early life of a Russian mathematician (Grigory Perelman) who became infamous with the publication of his proof of the Poincare Conjecture, one of the 'Millennium Problems' for which a proven solution earns $1,000,000 from the Clay Institute. The author's depiction of P...

from MathMaverick

An excellent book on a very interesting topic. I enjoyed how Soviet math clubs were presented in the book, very eye opening. Perelman is unbelievable, definitely "made of different dough". He is a product of a system that promoted mathematical pursuit. Absolutely brilliant! In a society in which ...

from KR2

This book really took me by surprise. Masha Gessen did a really good job with the small amount of information that she had to go off of. Still it was more information than the subject of the book, Grigory Perelman would have liked her to have. This book is the story of a Russian mathematician who...

from br77rino

A great look at the man (Grigory Perelman), the math (yes!), and the nation (the USSR) that brought about the long-sought solution to a mathematical puzzle involving multiple dimensions, and the 'sphericality' of the universe.