Masha Gessen wrote a book about Grisha Perelman - Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century. I feel certain affinity with the the author and the subject. And I am saddened to read that after Grisha Perelman solved the Poincare conjecture and then rejected the million dollar prize, he became a perfect recluse. Too bad for him, Bobby Fisher, JD Salinger, etc. they all would have been worshiped as holy men just a century ago. But indeed Grisha’s discovery is a breakthrough of an unimaginable genius.
Further Reading:
Zizek on the Fate of Macro Divisions
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