Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture
Despite his monumental achievement, Perelman turned down prestigious awards such as the Fields Medal and the $1 million Millennium Prize. He chose to live in seclusion and declined requests for interviews since 2006.
Remember this
Grigori Perelman's solution to the Poincaré conjecture is a landmark achievement in mathematics that has had a lasting impact on the field.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related concepts
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether proved Noether's theorem connecting symmetry and conservation laws
Richard Feynman's diagrams turned quantum field theory calculations from intractable algebra into picture-bookkeeping
Feynman diagrams simplified quantum field theory from complex algebra to visual bookkeeping
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt discovered the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables
There are more possible chess games than atoms in the observable universe
"There are more possible chess games (10^120) than atoms in the observable universe (10^80)."
Bohr model
Niels Bohr proposed electrons orbit at fixed energy levels, explaining hydrogen's spectral lines
Maxwell's equations
Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism, and light into a single theory with four equations
Swipe through 100 ML concepts daily
Open Pocket Polymath