Annals of Mathematics
Manifold Destiny
A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.
by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2
On wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Some excertps :
... Perelman has said that "I can’t say I’m outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest."[3] He has also said that "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated."[3]...
...He has said that "As long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice. Either to make some ugly thing" (a fuss about the mathematics community's lack of integrity) "or, if I didn’t do this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and say nothing. That is why I had to quit.”...
On December 22, 2006, the journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré Conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year," the first such recognition in the area of mathematics
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