大象无形的数学奇人:格里戈里·佩雷尔曼

The Great and Mysterious Mathematician Grigory Perelman

格里戈里·佩雷尔曼被公认为当代最伟大的数学家之一。佩雷尔曼出生于俄罗斯的一个犹太人家庭,曾先后在俄罗斯和美国等地的研究所工作,1995年之后脱离了主流学术界。他在贫寒艰苦的环境下独立研究,花了8年时间攻克了拓扑学中的头号难题庞加莱猜想。猜想被证明以后,佩雷尔曼拒绝了菲尔兹奖和千禧年大奖等荣誉,彻底退出学术界,目前处于归隐状态。考察这样一位特立独行的数学家,有助于揭示体制、社会与科学家之间的复杂关系。

The Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman is unanimously regarded as one of the greatest contemporary mathematicians. He was born in a Russian Jewish family, worked in the Russian and American institutes, and became isolated from the mainstream academia after 1995. Perelman did his independent research under very harsh conditions, and spent 8 years before solving the Poincaré conjecture. Afterwards, Perelman rejected the Fields Medal and Millennium Prize, and ultimately quit academia. This paper is intended to reveal the complicated correlation between academic mechanism, society and scientists by introducing the unique life of Perelman.