2 Jul
2010
2 Jul
'10
4:57 p.m.
<< The reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, aka Grisha, gained worldwide fame by claiming to have solved one of the world’s most intractable mathematical problems, the Poincaré conjecture, and then disappearing in St. Petersburg. On Thursday he said he had rejected a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for the feat.
More at < http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/science/02math.html >. --Dan I sleep as fast as possible so I can get more rest in the same amount of time.