John Morgan
"Having new insights about mathematical objects is...extraordinarily satisfying. The feeling that you have made progress in a discipline that is hundreds if not thousands of years old gives one a sense of connection with the past and also with the future. There is a beautiful intellectual tapestry being constructed over the ages and I am participating in that."
Sylvia Nasar
"Perelman’s proof was unorthodox. It was astonishingly brief for such an ambitious piece of work; logic sequences that could have been elaborated over many pages were often severely compressed. Moreover, the proof made no direct mention of the Poincaré and included many elegant results that were irrelevant to the central argument. But, four years later, at least two teams of experts had vetted the proof and had found no significant gaps or errors in it. A consensus was emerging in the math community: Perelman had solved the Poincaré."
--From "Manifold Destiny," published in The New Yorker by David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.
Nasar is writing a new book 《Grand Pursuit (in progress)》
Sylvia Nasar
John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism
B.A., Antioch College (1970); M.A., New York University (1976). Research Scientist, the Institute for Economic Analysis (1977-80); economist, Scientists Institute for Public Information and Control Data Corporation (1981-82); writer, Fortune magazine (1983-89); columnist, U.S. News & World Report (1990); reporter, New York Times (1991-99); Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation (2006-7), DeWitt Wallace Fellow, MacDowell Colony, (2006), Visiting Artist, Yaddo (2005), Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002-3 and 1995-96); visiting fellow, Kings and Churchill Colleges, Cambridge University (2000); co-editor, The Essential John Nash, author, A Beautiful Mind, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Grand Pursuit (in progress); judge, National Book Award, Anthony Lucas Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award.
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