The drama of a mathematical proof

An article in this week’s New Yorker describes the human drama behind a proof of the Poincare conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Problems. The article is unsparing of several mathematicians of Chinese origin.

Notes added on 27 August.

• Perelman turns down Fields Medal.
  
• Here is an excellent article on the proof in the New York Times.
  
• See the comment posted by Ting Zhu.