Perelman: First and Last Human to Solve a Millennium Prize Problem
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-09
A widely shared quip: Grigory Perelman was both the first and possibly the last human to solo-solve a Millennium Prize Problem (the Poincaré conjecture) — implying the era of lone geniuses cracking century-old math may be ending in the AI age.
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