 Manifold Destiny

"Manifold Destiny" is an article in "The New Yorker" written by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber and published in the August 28, 2006 issue of the magazine.It claims to give a detailed account (including interviews with many mathematicians) of some of the circumstances surrounding the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most important accomplishments of 20th and 21st century mathematics, and traces the attempts by three teams of mathematicians to verify the proof given by Grigori Perelman.