Poincaré, Perelman and proof
2007; IOP Publishing; Volume: 20; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1088/2058-7058/20/8/35
ISSN2058-7058
Autores Tópico(s)History and Theory of Mathematics
ResumoThe public's view of the mathematician as a reclusive genius toiling away for years at an arcane problem is one that will not go away. The media have enthusiastically seized on this image since the depictions of Andrew Wiles in Simon Singh's best-seller Fermat's Last Theorem and John Nash in the film A Beautiful Mind. Last summer in Madrid it surfaced again in the form of Grigori Perelman and the Poincaré conjecture. Not that Perelman was in Madrid – that was exactly the point.
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