Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century — Masha Gessen (2009)

Book Description

Relates the story of the mathematical genius who solved one of the world’s greatest intellectual puzzles–the Poincarâe conjecture–but could not cope with the reality of human affairs, causing him to withdraw first from the field he loved, and then fromthe world in general.

Book Details

• Author: Masha Gessen
• Publisher: Cengage
• Published Date: 2009
• Published Year: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780151014064