April 15, 2003

A Russian mathematician is reporting that he has proved the Poincaré Conjecture and is now ready to publish his proof in a series of papers. The New York Times reports that if true Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg could be eligible for a $1 million prize sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for solving what the institute identifies as one of the seven most important unsolved mathematics problems of the millennium. 12:05:22 AM