[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Female” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Russian Grigori Perelman is considered the greatest living mathematician. In 2002 – 2003 he solved one of the seven mathematical “Millenium Problems.” The theorem – known as Poincaré’s conjecture – involves the deep structure of three-dimensional shapes. It is one of seven elusive challenges set by the institute, each carrying a $1m reward. It took the world’s leading mathematicians several years to verify that Perelman had definitively solved the problem in a paper published in 2002. The remaining six are still unsolved. Perelman…
The Astrology of Grigory Perelman, the Maths Genius Who Said No to $1m
