Grigori Perelman — il genio della matematica che rifiutò un milione di dollari e poi scomparve

Grigori Perelman is one of the most extraordinary and mysterious mathematicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Born in 1966 in Leningrad, into a family where mathematics was everyday language, Perelman demonstrated in 2002 what the world's greatest minds had failed to do in a hundred years: the proof of the Poincaré Hypothesis, one of the seven Millennium Problems, accompanied by a million-dollar prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute. But Perelman's story is not simply the story of an exceptional scientific achievement. It is the story of a man who chose to live by a scale of values ​​radically different from that of academia and contemporary society. He refused the Fields Medal, the highest honor in world mathematics. He refused the million dollars. He abandoned his career, withdrew from public life, and chose silence. In this ten-part documentary, we retrace the entire trajectory of his life: his childhood in the Kupchino district of Leningrad, his education under the legendary teacher Sergei Rukshin, his years at Leningrad State University and the Steklov Institute, his American period with the decisive encounter with Richard Hamilton and the discovery of the Ricci flow, his return to Russia and the eight years of solitary work that led to the proof, the silent publication on the internet, the lecture tour in the United States, the scandal surrounding the Chinese mathematicians and the attempt to redistribute credit for the discovery, the resounding refusals in Madrid and Paris, his resignation from the institute, and his final retirement from mathematics. The documentary also addresses the deeper questions posed by Perelman's story: what does it mean to do science with absolute integrity? Where is the boundary between intellectual independence and isolation? What happens when a human being decides not to compromise with any institution, not even those that would honor him? Through rigorous and well-documented narration, based on verified historical sources and testimonies from colleagues, teachers, and direct observers, this video offers a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of one of the most singular figures in the history of modern science. This content is designed for those who love history, mathematics, the philosophy of science, and the biographies of figures who have left a lasting mark on human thought. Channel edited by Leonardo Ricci. © Leonardo Ricci. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, even partial, of this video, audio, or text without the author's written permission is prohibited under current copyright law. #GrigoriPerelman #PoincaréHypothesis #StoriesDidoli #DocumentaryMathematics #GeniusOfMathematics