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Mapping Mathematical Topolgy from Perelman

Grig­ory Perel­man is a Russ­ian math­e­mati­cian who solved the Poin­caré Con­jec­ture, a model that describes the rela­tion­ship of 2D-3D spa­tial mod­els. He was asked to accept the Fields Award for his work, but declined — many times. The Toronto Star writes about the sci­en­tist in an arti­cle enti­tled ‘A mad prin­ci­pled genius.’

From the arti­cle — The Poin­caré Con­jec­ture is a prob­lem in topol­ogy, or map­ping. The con­jec­ture is too com­plex to sum­ma­rize in a sen­tence with­out recourse to sev­eral more sen­tences of de-jargoning, but it deals with the sim­i­lar­i­ties between two spa­tial, three-dimensional mod­els. In 2002, Perel­man, still a little-known com­mod­ity in world math­e­mat­ics, posted the first of a three-part solu­tion to the con­jec­ture on the Inter­net. It took his bright­est peers a year and a half to ver­ify it, but the ini­tial impres­sion of cor­rect­ness made Perel­man a rock star overnight.

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