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Science 25 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5790, pp. 1027 - 1028
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5790.1027a
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MATHEMATICS:
Perelman Declines Math's Top Prize; Three Others Honored in Madrid

Dana Mackenzie

On Tuesday, the International Congress of Mathematicians awarded the closest equivalent to a Nobel Prize in math to three young stars (see sidebar). But the name on everybody's lips was that of the mathematician who had refused his Fields Medal: Grigory Perelman. (Read more.)

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