Sylvia Nasar - Manifold Destiny

Manifold Destiny

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In the 28 August 2006 The New Yorker, Nasar's article "Manifold Destiny" contained the only interview with Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture, but rejected the 2006 Fields Medal, and examined Fields Medalist S.T. Yau's response to Perelman's proof. Mathematicians wrote letters in defense of Yau over Nasar's portrayal, Yau threatened to file a lawsuit, but never followed through.

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