G. Perelman

	Birth Place	Leningrad , USSR
	Field	Mathematician
	Known For	Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Topology
	Prizes	Fields Medal (2006), declined

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (), born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad , USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), sometimes known as '''Grisha Perelman''', is a Russian Mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Topology . In particular, he has proved Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture . This solves in the affirmative the famous Poincaré Conjecture , posed in 1904 and regarded as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics.

²³ (an account of Perelman's talk on his proof at MIT; pdf file; also see Sugaku Seminar 2003-10 pp 4-7 for an extended version in Japanese)

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	NAME	Perelman, Grigori Yakovlevich
	SHORT DESCRIPTION	Mathematician
	DATE OF BIRTH	June 13 , 1966
	PLACE OF BIRTH	Leningrad , USSR

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	erdős number 4

	alumni of st. petersburg state university

	russian jews

	1966 births

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