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Now, after more than a century, an eccentric Russian
recluse has found the solution to one of the seven greatest math
problems of our time, earning the right to claim the first
one-million-dollar Millennium Math Prize… |
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George G. Szpiro,
Ph.D.
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"This is the
fascinating story of one of the most alluring and treacherous
problems in all of mathematical history. So many superb
mathematicians were sucked in by it, staking their careers on
attempts to solve it. So many announced their erroneous proofs,
only to suffer the consequences. And Perelman, the outsider,
overcomes what no one else could. The math community rejoices and he
turns his back. What a tale!" Colin Adams, Williams College
I am a journalist for
the Swiss daily "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and its
weekly Sunday edition "NZZ am Sonntag". My beat
is Israel and the Middle East. But because I was trained
as a mathematician I also do science reporting. On this web site I also present my previous books "Kepler's
Conjecture" and "Secret Life of Numbers"
My wife is a sculptor and you are welcome to
visit her website here.
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Poincaré's Prize
The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of
Math's Greatest Puzzles
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Secret Life of Numbers
50 Easy Pieces on
How Mathematicians Work And Think
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Kepler's
conjecture
How Some of the Greatest Minds in History
Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
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Neue Zürcher
Zeitung The NZZ is based in
Zurich, Switzerland. It is considered one of the leading
German-language newspapers, has a circulation of about
160,000 and is read also in Germany, Austria and other
countries. Founded in 1780 it is one of the world's oldest newspapers.
Until 1969 the NZZ published three different editions a day!.
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NZZ am
Sonntag On
March 17, 2002 the Neue Zürcher Zeitung started a Sunday
paper, named "NZZ am Sonntag." I have a monthly
column on mathematics, and also write about other science
subjects.
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Hard Science My research articles are not available on line. You may
check them out below, and if you are interested in one or more of them
please drop me a line.
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About
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'my first name spelt backwards' at 'this website' dot 'com' |
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