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ByStephenOrnes[1]ReclusivemathematicianGrigoryPerelmanprovedthePoincaréconjecture.Butherefuseda$1 millionprizeforsolvingthisfamouspuzzle–inpartbecausehebelievedhewasn’ttheonlyonewhodeservedcredit.NowthemathematicianwhoPerelmanwantedtoseerecognisedhaswonalucrativeprize.OnTuesday,theShawPrizeFoundationinHongKongannounced[2]thatitwouldsplititsannual$1 millionprizeinthemathematicalsciences,withhalfgoingtoRichardHamilton[3]atColumbiaUniversityinNewYork,whodevisedageometrical...
Reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture. But he refused a $1 million prize for solving this famous puzzle – in part because he believed he wasn’t the only one who deserved credit. Now the mathematician who Perelman wanted to see recognised has won a lucrative prize.
On Tuesday, the Shaw Prize Foundation in Hong Kong announced[2] that it would split its annual $1 million prize in the mathematical sciences, with half going to Richard Hamilton[3] at Columbia University in New York, who devised a geometrical process that underpins Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The other half goes to Demetrios Christodoulou[4] at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, who works on black hole physics and general relativity.
Henri Poincaré’s famous ...