ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — He said nyet to $1 million. Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, ...

Mathematicians were abuzz, in 2003, when the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman announced that he had solved a key part of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a problem many in the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that ...

Physics for Reclusive Russian Mathematical Geniuses By Macy Halford August 12, 2008 Did you, like us, read Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber’s 2006 article on the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori ...

Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer. All told, more ...

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 ...

A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics’ oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture. Evidence has been mounting since ...

The impetus to republish this once-popular miscellany by an early–20th-century Russian scientist stems from the notoriety of reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman (no relation), who was ...