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Billionaire Ronald Perelman, it seems, liked to surprise wife ELLEN BARKIN. Sometimes it was with jewels, and one time it was with divorce papers. So it's not shocking that the Sea of Love star isn't feeling so attached to the baubles. On Oct. 10 at Christie's, Barkin, 52, will auction off $15 million worth of them (including these diamond earrings). Taking a page from her ex's playbook (he bought a stake in his first company with his first wife's money), the fourth Mrs P. will use the loot to launch a production company...
...There was little doubt that Perelman...deserved a Fields Medal,” Nasar and Gruber wrote—even though the hermetic genius declined the honor...
...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 of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
Cooper wrote that this illustration and the article’s text falsely implied that Yau was trying to rob Perelman of the Fields Medal...
Until 2002 that is, when Perelman presented a proof of the conjecture in three installments. It was unusually short, and unorthodox in another way—instead of publishing it in a peer-reviewed academic journal, Perelman posted it to the Internet. But nobody was able to prove it wrong...