Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:25 PM EDT

Article Source: The New York Times

science, math, fields-medal, poincare-conjecture

He's sort of the JD Salinger of Math.

Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincaré conjecture, about the nature of space...
But at the moment of his putative triumph, Dr. Perelman is nowhere in sight. He is an odds-on favorite to win a Fields Medal, math's version of the Nobel Prize, when the International Mathematics Union convenes in Madrid next Tuesday. But there is no indication whether he will show up.

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