Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha GessenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The story of Grigory Perelman and his solution to Poincare's Conjecture, a mathematical problem that seemed unlikely to be solved. His early life, the situation in Russian mathematics (stifling anti-Semitism), his career path, and eventual withdrawal before his solution emerged. Good description of the math without being too technical (which would have lost my interest.)
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