Scott Simon talks with math guy Keith Devlin about the work of Grigori Perelman. Perelman is a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia, who may have solved a ...

Since it was proposed by polymath H. Poincare' in 1904, who sought to mathematically define the topology of a sphere, mathematicians had sought to prove the theorem. For more than a century, the best ...

In early April 2002, Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg gave a series of public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the lectures he ...

Reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture. But he refused a $1 million prize for solving this famous puzzle – in part because he believed he wasn’t the only one ...

Seven years ago, a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, startled the scientific world by claiming to solve one of the most famous and intractable problems in mathematics, called the ...

Grisha Perelman has finally spoken. The reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, aka Grisha, gained worldwide fame by claiming to have solved one of the world’s most intractable mathematical ...