Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture

EagleHasLanded writes "Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman doesn't talk to journalists. Actually, he doesn't talk to anyone anymore. So we'll have to settle for insights via his biographer, Masha Gessen, who, strangely enough, has never talked to him either. But she has spoken with just about everyone who has ever had any significant interaction with Perelman, and the result is the book Perfect Rigor, which more than adequately explains why Perelman has gone into self-imposed exile, and why he probably won't collect the million dollars he won by solving the Poincare Conjecture."

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poor design clay institute web site

[cinnamon colbert]

am i the only one noticing that you have to click to each problem, and each page has just a short bit of text and a picture ? why on earth can't the clay put this all on one page - if they have 7 million smackers for prize money surely they can afford to correct really glaring errors in website design or is this a math way of saying we are mathemiticians who don't care about the crap that you normal lesser people care about ?

Re:poor design clay institute web site

[PopeRatzo]

By the way, did you hear about the Brittney Murphy robot?

It got silicon injections.

What...too soon?

Re:Knows as much about ethics as he does mathemati

[macraig]

...there is only one consciousness and that you cannot exclude yourself from it. There is only God.

You mean the Borg Queen, right?

Re:Who cares?

[PopeRatzo]

Brittany Murphy is dead

I didn't even know she was sick.