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Perfect rigor : a genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century / Masha Gessen.
LIBRA QA29.P6727 G47 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gessen, M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perelman, Grigori, 1966-.
- Perelman, Grigori.
- Mathematicians--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Russia (Federation).
- Poincaré conjecture.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Escape into the Imagination 1
- 2 How to Make a Mathematician 16
- 3 A Beautiful School 33
- 4 A Perfect Score 60
- 5 Rules for Adulthood 81
- 6 Guardian Angels 102
- 7 Round Trip 112
- 8 The Problem 131
- 9 The Proof Emerges 148
- 10 The Madness 170
- 11 The Million-Dollar Question 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151014064
- 015101406X
- OCLC:
- 317917987
- Publisher Number:
- 99935410589
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