“If the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.”

— Grigori Perelman

[David S. Richeson, Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology, http://books.google.com/books?id=KUYLhOVkaV4C&pg=PA285, 8 March 2012, Princeton University Press, 1-4008-3856-8, 285]

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