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Russia's Conquering Zeros

By Masha Gessen Moscow It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century's hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in Russia who, early in this... Full Article at Wall Street Journal

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