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Not many people can turn the pusuits of a reclusive Russian living with his mother in a bug-infested St. Petersburg apartment into a story of wonderment, but O'Shea gives a good development of the background leading up to Perelman's proof; the detail is what really makes this a good read. Now if only someone can figure out Riemann's hypothesis...
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