G. Perelman
| Grigori Perelman | |
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Grigori Perelman in 1993
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| Born |
13 June 1966 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Thesis | Saddle Surfaces in Euclidean Spaces (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Aleksandr Aleksandrov Yuri Burago |
| Known for |
Riemannian geometry Geometric topology Proof of the Soul conjecture Proof of the Poincaré conjecture |
| Notable awards |
Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society Prize (1991) EMS Prize (1996), declined Fields Medal (2006), declined Millennium Prize (2010), declined |
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Перельма́н; IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ pʲɪrʲɪlʲˈman] /pɛrɪlˈmɑːn/ perr-il-MAHN; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician. He made a landmark contribution to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.
In 1994, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2003, he proved (confirmed in 2006) Thurston's geometrization conjecture. This consequently solved in the affirmative the Poincaré conjecture.
In August 2006, Perelman was offered the Fields Medal for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow", but he declined the award, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." On 22 December 2006, the scientific journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics.
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