Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber's account, for The New Yorker, of the 2006 dispute over credit for the proof of the Poincare conjecture, drawing on extensive interviews with Grigori Perelman, Shing-Tung Yau and other mathematicians. Read via the reprint authorized by the authors in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, series 5, volume 8, number 1, March 2007, pages 34 to 43.
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AuthorSylvia Nasar and David Gruber
PublisherThe New Yorker, August 28, 2006 (reprinted with permission in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 2007)
Publication Year2006
URLhttps://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/pdf/naw5-2007-08-1-034.pdf
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