[CvGmt News] Clay Awards Prize to Perelman (fwd)

[Novaga Matteo]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:31 -0400
From: Carol Hutchins <carol.hutchins at nyu.edu>
To: everybody at cims.nyu.edu
Subject: Clay Awards Prize to Perelman



  First Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Announced Today

*Prize for Resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture Awarded to Dr. Grigoriy 
Perelman*

*March 18, 2010*

The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman 
of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for 
resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. The citation for the award reads:

/The Clay Mathematics Institute hereby awards the Millennium Prize for 
resolution of the Poincaré conjecture to Grigoriy Perelman. /

The Poincaré conjecture is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems 
established by CMI in 2000. The Prizes were conceived to record some of the 
most difficult problems with which mathematicians were grappling at the turn of 
the second millennium; to elevate in the consciousness of the general public 
the fact that in mathematics, the frontier is still open and abounds in 
important unsolved problems; to emphasize the importance of working towards a 
solution of the deepest, most difficult problems; and to recognize achievement 
in mathematics of historical magnitude.