Poincare's Prize

The amazing story of one of the greatest math problems of all time and the reclusive genius who solved it In the tradition of  Fermat’s Enigma  and  Prime Obsession , George Szpiro brings to life the giants of mathematics who struggled to prove a theorem for a century and the mysterious man from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who fi nally accomplished the impossible. In 1904 Henri Poincaré developed the Poincaré Conjecture, an attempt to understand higher-dimensional space and