Manifold Destiny
David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.
"I'm looking for some friends, and they don't have to be mathematicians" — Grigory Perelman, who proved the Poincaré conjecture then vanished