From the acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen.

'[I] hugely enjoyed reading Masha Gessen's book. It gives the reader such an insight into Perelman, mathematics and Soviet education. The book will sit on my shelves between Simon Singh's Fermat's 'Last Theorem' and Graham Farmelo's 'The Strangest Man'.'

Autorentext
Masha Gessen is a journalist who has written for Slate, Seed, the New Republic, the New York Times, and other publications, and is the author of two previous books.

Klappentext

Subtitled, "A Genius & The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century". Paperback edition of Gessen's biography of Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture.

Zusammenfassung
A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius