The New York Times recently reported that reclusive Russian geometer Grigory Perelman has apparently proved the century-old Poincaré conjecture. The Times calls Poincaré “a landmark not just of ...

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 ...

Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has turned down a $1 million prize for proving the century-old Poincaré conjecture, one of the world’s most difficult math problems. Although Perelman solved the ...

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 ...

Hyam Rubinstein receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has also received funding from several mining companies for research on the optimal design of access networks in underground ...

One of the toughest problems in maths may have been solved by the Russian scientist Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He put forward his solution to the Poincare Conjecture ...

A charity and a communist group ask Grigori Perelman to donate prize to them. MOSCOW, March 23, 2009 -- A reclusive Russian mathematician who was recently awarded $1 million for solving a problem ...