Sefa Bulak

Leaving the World While Alive: An Interpretive Essay and Documentary Archive on Grigori Perelman's Withdrawal (2005–2026)

This paper approaches the Russian mathematician Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, who published a proof of the Poincaré conjecture in 2002–2003 and subsequently withdrew from public life after declining the Fields Medal (2006), the Clay Millennium Prize (2010) and candidacy for full...