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August 28, 2006
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annals of mathematics
Manifold Destiny
Sylvia Nasar
David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.