(open access) named a breakthrough that has no connections to politics or religion: the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture by Russian mathematician Grisha Perelman.

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 ...

Look around at the world, and the objects in it–buildings, trees, people, birds, insects–appear to come in an endless variety of shapes. At first, cataloging these diverse shapes may seem impossible.

Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a.k.a. Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18 -- The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for resolution of the ...

Were it not for the Poincaré conjecture, it is doubtful whether many non-mathematicians today would know of Henri Poincaré. His vexed question in topology was solved only in 2003 — nearly a century ...

Reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture. But he refused a $1 million prize for solving this famous puzzle – in part because he believed he wasn’t the only one ...

Science magazine names their biggest scientific breakthrough of the year: Grisha Perelman's mathematical proof of the Poincare Conjecture. A one hundred and two year old mathematics problem that has ...