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In honor of Perelman’s recent official rejection of the Clay Institute’s $1 million prize for solving Poincaré’s Conjecture (he’d already declined the Fields’s medal) here’s a re-print from Slate Magazine (of a piece written 4 years ago for the NYTimes). It bears repeating.

This video gives a brief overview of the Poincaré Conjecture, background, mathematics, controversy and a few figures surrounding the solution. Henri Poincare...