The International Mathematical Union awarded its prestigious Fields Medal on Tuesday to three professors who teach at universities in the United States and France, and to a reclusive Russian ...

Mathematicians were abuzz, in 2003, when the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman announced that he had solved a key part of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a problem many in the ...

Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer. All told, more ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that ...

Who would turn down a $1 million prize for solving a math problem? Perhaps the smartest man in the world. Three months ago, a famously impoverished Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was ...

Grigory Perelman, a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia, won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century. The only thing left ...

The impetus to republish this once-popular miscellany by an early–20th-century Russian scientist stems from the notoriety of reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman (no relation), who was ...

Grigory Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture in 2002-2003 and turned down a $1 million prize awarded to him NEW YORK, May 31. /TASS/. US entrepreneur Elon Musk has admired Russian mathematician ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia -- and who won $1 million for solving a problem that ...