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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha GessenHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 242 pp., $26.00
Masha Gessen’s Perfect Rigor is a fascinating biography of Grigory (Grisha) Perelman, the fearsomely brilliant and notoriously antisocial Russian mathematician. Perelman proved the Poincaré Conjecture, one of mathematics’ most important and intractable problems, in 2002—almost a century after it was first posed, and just two years after the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a one-million-dollar prize for its solution.
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