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 ...

Mathematicians were abuzz, in 2003, when the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman announced that he had solved a key part of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a problem many in the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture. Evidence has been ...

In 2006, researchers closed a major chapter in mathematics, reaching a consensus that the elusive Poincaré Conjecture, which deals with abstract shapes in three-dimensional space, had finally been ...