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Acording to Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested in the fusion of math and physics as represented in the age-old Poincare Conjecture. Yau...
At the center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck...
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GRIGORY SISOYEV/ITAR-TASS
Vladimir Putin rapped on the microphone to get his ministers' attention. "Look over here and listen to me when I speak," he snapped. "If this is not interesting ... " He jerked his head toward the door, suggesting that the top officials gathered for this Security Council meeting should leave. It's...