A Russian mathematician may have finally cracked one of the most famous problems in mathematics: the Poincaré conjecture, a question about the shapes of three-dimensional spaces. If his work is ...

World top mathematician Richard Hamilton has recognized the work of Chinese mathematicians on giving a complete proof of the century-old puzzle of Poincare Conjecture. Foreign member of the Chinese ...

In early April 2002, Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg gave a series of public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the lectures he ...

The never-knowingly-undersold Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that a team of Chinese scientists has solved Poincaré's Conjecture, one of the longest-outstanding mathematical problems that is ...

A Russian mathematician is reporting that he has proved the Poincare Conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. The mathematician, Dr Grigori Perelman of the Steklov ...

The 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 ...