Perfect rigor. Storia di un genio e della più grande conquista matematica del secolo
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Nel 2002 un matematico russo, Grigori Perel'man, sciolse uno dei sette enigmi matematici del secolo: la congettura di Poincaré. Fu un risultato clamoroso, che mise in subbuglio la comunità matematica mondiale. Ma dopo dieci anni di dedizione assoluta, quasi monacale, Perel'man respinse tutti gli onori che gli venivano tributati: rifiutò il premio Clay da un milione di dollari, nonché prestigiose cattedre universitarie e la medaglia Fields, l'equivalente del Nobel per la matematica. Infine lasciò il lavoro, negandosi agli amici e alla stampa e ritirandosi in uno squallido appartamento nella periferia di San Pietroburgo, dove vive tuttora con la sola compagnia di sua madre. La giornalista russa Masha Gessen ricostruisce la storia misteriosa e tragica di questo genio eccentrico, costellata di mentori geniali e strane manie, amici e nemici, successi e delusioni, rievocando le atmosfere dell'epoca sovietica, tra repressione e aneliti di grandezza, e indagando le ragioni profonde che possono aver spinto Perel'man a tagliare ogni contatto con la società e a diventare una leggenda.
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- Data di uscita: 30-08-2018
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I read this book after reading Prasad Kothari's article on Perelman & possible application of Ricci Flow in data science. There are lot of applications which have come up after Kothari's article hence I started reading this book. Great book. Its is great to know how Perelman grew up, his genius etc. Leggi tutto
From an Amazon user: By rbnn (Berkeley, CA United States) This is the first review on Amazon I've written for which I had difficulty determining whether the book merited one or five stars. Based purely on the information in the book and the story the book tells, it's easily a five-star book. The auth Leggi tutto
Ehhhh, I was expecting a good deal more than that. The New Yorker article from 2006 was better reading overall ("Manifold Destiny", http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006... ). ----- Ahhh, Perelman, you ultimate enigma. Upon this book's arrival, I will lock myself in the bathroom with a liter of homebre Leggi tutto
This is the story of Grigori (Grisha) Perelman, the Russian mathematician who famously published a solution to the Poincaré conjecture at the beginning of the century, but rejected all the adulation that came with it and has apparently left mathematics. There's also a lot about the history of the ma Leggi tutto
Wonderful book. I heard about it in Prasad Kothari's lecture on Ramanujan Machine, Ricci flow & topology in AI (Where he gave example about AI, Topology and Ricci Flow. How perelman's work can be used in networks and applications of ricci flow. He also explained CNNs for analyzing Calabi Yau further Leggi tutto
Not so much a biography: instead a study of recent Russian anti-Semitism, the viciousness of Soviet academia, and but also the wonderful alternative subculture that lived uneasily within it. This subculture hid inside the superhuman apolitical dreamland, mathematics.* It could only exist because of
An engrossing and fascinating look at the mind and social milieu of the great Soviet mathematician, Grigory ("Grisha") Perelman. That this exotic (and "Greek") mathematical culture could thrive in the midst of one of the Twentieth Century's most repressive regimes is astonishing in and of itself. Th Leggi tutto
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