Day 38 of being unemployed.Can you really throw away a certificate?On the wall of my room, there is a soccer certificate from ...

In a world where scientific breakthroughs often bring fame, wealth, and global recognition, Grigori Perelman chose a completely different path. The Russian mathematician stunned the academic world ...

Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman became famous not only for solving the century-old Poincaré conjecture, but also for turning his back on mathematics’ highest honors, rejecting the Fields Medal ...

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 ...

IN NOVEMBER 2002, an obscure Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman caused a sensation in the mathematical community when he posted the first in a series of papers proving the most famous ...

He solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics — a million-dollar challenge that had defeated everyone for decades. Then, without taking the prize, the fame, or the spotlight… he vanished. This ...

Grigori Perelman lives a life of quiet anonymity in Saint Petersburg, dedicating his days to caring for his mother. He exists completely detached from the global fame that his unparalleled genius and ...

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 ...

For nearly 100 years, the conjecture had confused the sharpest minds in maths, many of whom had claimed its proof, only to have their work discarded upon subsequent scrutiny. The problem had broken ...