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Perelman wins Millenium Prize for proving Poincaré conjecture

 
Mar 19, 2010 09:34 Moscow Time
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A Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman has won the Millennium Prize for solving the Poincare conjecture, one of the seven unresolved problems in mathematics. The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each. Yet it is not known whether Perelman has accepted the prize. In 2006 he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincare conjecture but he did not accept the prize. Perelman, who lives in Saint Petersburg, stubbornly refuses to meet the press and make public appearances.  

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