[ntownsend]

For those interested in learning more about the character of Perleman and some of the controversy surrounding the Poincaré conjecture and it's proof, here's a great article from the New Yorker (dated Aug. 28, 2006): http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2

[teeja]

"Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed."

Too good for this world.