Grigory Perelman, a leading researcher at the mathematical physics lab of the St Petersburg branch of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, who holds a degree of candidate of physics and mathematics, found the answer to the problem back two years ago, recalled the newspaper. The scholar's two articles that claimed he had proved Poincare?'s hypothesis were published on the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Web site at that time.
The problem is that Mr. Perelman does not seem to be interested in getting the money. He has avoided discussing his results with anyone or meeting reporters. He has not even bothered to provide his work to mathematical editions of authority like The Advances in Mathematics magazine, while his articles published on the Internet are preprints and are not qualified as scientific publications, according to Professor Devlin.
The hypothesis was articulated by French scholar Henry Poincare? in 1904. It is considered to be a central problem of topology, a science about the geometric properties of bodies that do not change when bodies stretch, curve or contract. Scholars had been unsuccessfully struggling to find an answer to the problem for 100 years.
