Grigori Perelman
A Russian mathematician renowned for proving the Poincaré conjecture in the three-dimensional case. He is the only person to have solved one of the Clay Millennium Prize Problems and declined both the Fields Medal and the associated one-million-dollar prize.
Core Facts
Of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture was proved, by Grigori Perelman in 2003, and he declined the prize money.
Of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture has been proved, by Grigori Perelman in 2003, while the remaining six remain unsolved to this day.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture has been solved, by Grigori Perelman.
Perelman published three papers on arXiv in 2002–2003 outlining the proof of the Geometrization Conjecture using Ricci flow and surgery techniques; the verification process took about three years, and the Clay Mathematics Institute did not officially recognize the conjecture as solved until 2010.
Perelman declined both the Fields Medal and the one-million-dollar prize.
All Facts (5)
Of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture was proved, by Grigori Perelman in 2003, and he declined the prize money.
90%VerifiedOf the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture has been proved, by Grigori Perelman in 2003, while the remaining six remain unsolved to this day.
80%UnverifiedPerelman declined both the Fields Medal and the one-million-dollar prize.
60%UnverifiedOf the seven Millennium Prize Problems, only the Poincaré conjecture has been solved, by Grigori Perelman.
50%UnverifiedPerelman published three papers on arXiv in 2002–2003 outlining the proof of the Geometrization Conjecture using Ricci flow and surgery techniques; the verification process took about three years, and the Clay Mathematics Institute did not officially recognize the conjecture as solved until 2010.
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