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Grigori Perelman

1966 - Today

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Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Перельман, IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ pʲɪrʲɪlʲˈman] ; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology. In 2005, Perelman abruptly quit his research job at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, due to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigori Perelman has received more than 3,673,537 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Grigori Perelman is the 114th most popular mathematician (up from 128th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Russia (up from 265th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Grigori Perelman is most famous for solving the Poincare conjecture, which is the idea that any three-dimensional sphere is homeomorphic to the three-dimensional sphere.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Grigori Perelman ranks 114 out of 823. Before him are G. H. Hardy, Meton of Athens, Girard Desargues, Isaac Barrow, Theon of Alexandria, and Charles Hermite. After him are Josef Stefan, Christopher Clavius, Hermann Weyl, Leonid Kantorovich, Émile Borel, and Aloysius Lilius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Grigori Perelman ranks 13. Before him are Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Mishustin, Vincent Cassel, Hristo Stoichkov, Helena Bonham Carter, and Adam Sandler. After him are Eric Cantona, René Higuita, Halle Berry, Zoran Milanović, David Cameron, and Luke Perry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigori Perelman ranks 245 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Gustav Bauer (1870), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), and Vasily I of Moscow (1371). After him are Vasily Smyslov (1921), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Alexander Blok (1880), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), and Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Grigori Perelman ranks 8. Before him are Georg Cantor (1845), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Alexander Friedmann (1888), and Christian Goldbach (1690). After him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), and Igor Ansoff (1918).

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