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 ...

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 ...

Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, has been touring US universities describing his work in a series of papers not yet ...

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 ...

World top mathematician Richard Hamilton has recognized the work of Chinese mathematicians on giving a complete proof of the century-old puzzle of Poincare Conjecture. Foreign member of the Chinese ...

MADRID, Spain -- A reclusive Russian genius won the Fields Medal, the math world's highest honor, Tuesday for work toward resolving a 100-year-old brain-twister. But he shunned the ceremony and stayed ...