Sunday, August 27, 2006

Grigory Perelman - New York Times

Grigory Perelman - New York Times: "Until his death in 1996, the Hungarian number theorist Paul Erdos was content to live out of a suitcase, traveling from the home of one colleague to another, seeking theorems so sparse and true that they came, he said, “straight from The Book,” a platonic text where he envisioned all mathematics was prewritten."

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