In 1999, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the Millennium Prize Problems: $1,000,000 prizes for the proof of any of seven conjectures, including the Poincaré conjecture.
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Masha Gessen, the author of Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century, a book about him, was unable to meet him.
It is a constant that runs through her entire oeuvre in various forms—from verschwinden (Disappear, 1999) and Briefe (Letters, 2001) to zu Tisch (At Table, 2011) and the video ...das grösste Glück, welches vorstellbar ist (The Greatest Happiness Imaginable, 2010), a work about the mathematician Grigori Perelman.
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He has advised Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.