![]() ![]() ![]() The theorem – known as Poincaré's conjecture – involves the deep structure of three-dimensional shapes. The Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week honoured Perelman for his solution to a problem posed almost a century ago by French mathematician Henri Poincaré. ![]() Do you a) accept a $1m reward, or b) reject the money, barricade yourself inside your flat and refuse to answer the door? The answer, if you are the reclusive Russian genius Grigory Perelman, is b). You have solved one of maths' most intractable problems.
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