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  1. Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (1966 - ) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Perelman/

    15 Nov 2025: Summary. Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal or the $1 000 000 Clay Prize. . ... 23 (2007), 50-51. Press Release, 2006 Fields Medal: Grigori Perelman. J Randerson, Meet

  2. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

    30 Sep 2025: An abacus is a calculating device based on either beads sliding on wires or balls or stones in grooves.. An abelian or hyperelliptic function is a generalisation of an elliptic function. It is a function of two variables with four periods. In a

  3. Pictures of Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Perelman/pictdisplay/

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  4. Ricci flow - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ricci_flow/

    5 Aug 2024: We also quote from the citation for the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize awarded to Grigori Perelman for proving the Poincaré Conjecture. ... It was thus a huge surprise when Grigori Perelman announced, in a series of preprints posted on ArXiv

  5. Chronology for 2000 - 2010 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/38/

    7 Mar 2023: Grigori Perelman outlines a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. In 2006 he is awarded a Fields Medal for the work but declines to accept it.

  6. Detlef Gromoll - NY Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Gromoll_NYTimes/

    7 Mar 2023: intractable problems in mathematics, by Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician. ... And it actually shows up in two independent places in Perelman's proof," Dr.

  7. sci_hi PDF (456k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/poincare_sh.pdf

    14 Dec 2025: In November 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman published his outline of a solution of the Poincaré conjecture and four years later Perelman was awarded, but declined, the Fields Medal for his ... proof. In 2010, the Clay. Mathematics Institute

  8. FIELDS MEDAL WINNERS 1936: Lars AhlforsRiemann surfaces 1936: Jesse… PDF (1844k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Posters/fm_poster.pdf

    17 Apr 2023: 2006: Andrei Okounkov. mathematical physics. 2006: Grigori Perelman. geometry(He refused the award).

  9. Henri Poincaré English version PDF (653k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/poincare.pdf

    3 Mar 2021: Finally, in 2002, GRIGORI PERELMAN came up with a proof. He was awarded a million-dollar prize for having solved one of the so-called millennium problems, but he refused the

  10. Hamilton awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hamilton_awards/

    5 Aug 2024: Recent work by Grigori Perelman of St Petersburg has spectacularly advanced these ideas and brought us much closer to an understanding of the conjectures. ... He is best known for having discovered the Ricci flow and suggesting the research program that