Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman became famous not only for solving the century-old Poincaré conjecture, but also for turning his back on mathematics’ highest honors, rejecting the Fields Medal ...

A million-dollar prize for solving one of toughest problems in mathematics has been awarded to a Russian mathematician, but the real puzzle is whether he’ll accept it. The conjecture, proposed by ...

Grigory Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture in 2002-2003 and turned down a $1 million prize awarded to him NEW YORK, May 31. /TASS/. US entrepreneur Elon Musk has admired Russian mathematician ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — He said nyet to $1 million. Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman may have turned down a million dollars after winning a Millennium prize, but six more are still up for grabs THE first in a series of million-dollar prizes for solving ...

Who would turn down a $1 million prize for solving a math problem? Perhaps the smartest man in the world. Three months ago, a famously impoverished Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was ...

Back in March, when the Clay Mathematics Institute announced that its first $1-million Millennium Prize had been awarded to Grigori Perelman, a brilliant but reclusive Russian mathematician, the ...

Mathematicians were abuzz, in 2003, when the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman announced that he had solved a key part of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a problem many in the ...

Australian prodigy Professor Terence Tao has won the mathematics world's version of a Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, for contributions to harmonic analysis and numerical theory. Tao, aged just 31, ...