“did not quite understand the argument and reworked it.”
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Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician and geometer who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology. In 2005, Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the fi…
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Born 13 June 1966 · Q117346
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2026· 5 entries
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VN Express: Meet Grigori Perelman, the reclusive math genius who rejected Fields Medal and $1M prize
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2021· 2 entries
Published “Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status” in Cell — cited 1,269 times.
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Published “More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis” in Scientific Reports — cited 1,853 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Abbas Bahri pointed out a counterexample to one of Morgan and Tian's theorems, which was later fixed by Morgan and Tian and sourced to an incorrectly computed evolution equation
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2014· 3 entries
Published “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds” in Science — cited 1,757 times.
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Published “Cancer Exosomes Perform Cell-Independent MicroRNA Biogenesis and Promote Tumorigenesis” in Cancer Cell — cited 1,332 times.
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Russian media reported that Perelman was working in the field of nanotechnology in Sweden
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2011· 1 entry
Published “A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates” in PLoS Genetics — cited 1,175 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Millennium Problems (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
Morgan and Tian posted a paper which covered the details of the proof of the geometrization conjecture
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2007· 1 entry
Perelman confided to him that he was working on other things, but that it was too premature to discuss them
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2006· 2 entries
Won Fields medal (2006).
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“Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest.”
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2005· 1 entry
Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field
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2003· 1 entry
Had taken down notes from the initial version of Kleiner and Lott's notes, and in their 2006 writeup had not realized the proper source of the notes
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2002· 2 entries
Published “Automatically characterizing large scale program behavior” in Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems — cited 1,124 times.
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And 2003, he developed new techniques in the analysis of Ricci flow, and proved the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture, the former of which had been a famous open problem in mathematics for the
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1999· 1 entry
Published work on Ricci flow in three dimensions, showing that if a three-dimensional version of his surgery techniques could be developed, and if a certain conjecture on the long-time behavior of Ricci flow could be
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1997· 3 entries
Published “A finite‐volume, incompressible Navier Stokes model for studies of the ocean on parallel computers” in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans — cited 2,131 times.
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Published “Hydrostatic, quasi‐hydrostatic, and nonhydrostatic ocean modeling” in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans — cited 1,176 times.
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Published “Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)” in Physical Review Letters — cited 6,233 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded EMS Prize (1996).
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1994· 3 entries
Proved the soul conjecture in Riemannian geometry, which had been an open problem for the previous 20 years
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Was offered jobs at several top universities in the US, including Princeton and Stanford, but he rejected them all and returned to the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg in the summer of 1995 for a research-only po
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Perelman gave a short proof of Cheeger and Gromoll's conjecture by establishing that, under the condition of nonnegative sectional curvature, Sharafutdinov's retraction is a submersion
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1992· 1 entry
Was invited to spend a semester each at the Courant Institute in New York University, where he began work on manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature
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1991· 1 entry
Perelman won the Young Mathematician Prize of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society for his work on Aleksandrov's spaces of curvature bounded from below
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1990· 1 entry
Perelman began working at Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where his advisors were Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yuri Burago
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1987· 2 entries
Studied at Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty, St. Petersburg State University (1982–1987).
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The year he began graduate studies, he published an article controlling the size of circumscribed cylinders by that of inscribed spheres
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1982· 2 entries
William Thurston developed a novel viewpoint, making the Poincaré conjecture into a small special case of a hypothetical systematic structure theory of topology in three dimensions
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Not long after his sixteenth birthday, he won a gold medal as a member of the Soviet team at the International Mathematical Olympiad hosted in Budapest, achieving a perfect score
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1972· 1 entry
Jeff Cheeger and Detlef Gromoll established their important soul theorem
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-06-13.
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1961· 1 entry
And Michael Freedman proved the four-dimensional version in 1982
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1904· 1 entry
Was throughout the 20th century regarded as a key problem in topology
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