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 ...
In 2006, researchers closed a major chapter in mathematics, reaching a consensus that the elusive Poincaré Conjecture, which deals with abstract shapes in three-dimensional space, had finally been ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18 -- The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for resolution of the ...