AKA Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman

Born: 13-Jun-1966
Birthplace: Leningrad, Russia

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Proved the Poincaré conjecture

Reclusive Russian math prodigy who solved what had been thought an insolvable mathematics riddle posed by Henri Poincaré, proving that three-spheres are the only possible bounded three-dimensional spaces to contain no holes. Refused a $1M cash prize offered for the solution. "Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity... I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?"

Sister: Elena

    University: PhD Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University
    University: Steklov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

    Mensa
    Russian Ancestry
    Jewish Ancestry

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