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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…   POINCARÉ’S PRIZE: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles by George G. Szpiro, Ph.D.       "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. Buy Poincaré's Prize at Amazon
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	Poincaré's Prize The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
	Secret Life of Numbers 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work And Think
	Kepler's conjecture How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
	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!.
	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.
	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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