turnaround specialistBorn: 1935Birthplace: Greensboro, N.C. Educated in boardroom behavior at his father's knee, Perelman began attending board meetings for Belmont Industries when he was only 11.…
(Encyclopedia) Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph Perelman)Perelman, S. J.pĕrˈəlmən [key], 1904–79, American comic writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He entered the magazine world as a cartoonist for a New York…
(Encyclopedia) Perelman, Grigori Yakovlevich, 1966–, Russian mathematician. After doing graduate work in the late 1980s for his Candidate of Science degree from Leningrad State Univ. (now St.…
A million-dollar math problem
by Borgna Brunner Henri Poincaré posed his famously bedeviling math problem more than a century ago. The Clay Institute's Millennium Problems…
Million-Dollar Math Problem In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass., identified seven math problems it deemed the most “important classic questions that have resisted solution…
actressBorn: 4/16/1954Birthplace: New York City After a few roles on television, she got her first leading role in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982), and kept busy in a variety of supporting roles in…
—By Borgna BrunnerStardust Memories After a seven-year, three-billion-mile expedition through the solar system, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft capsule landed in the Arizona desert on Jan. 15, 2006,…
(Encyclopedia) Juliana of NorwichJuliana of Norwichnôrˈĭch [key], d. c.1443, English religious writer, an anchoress, or hermit, of Norwich called Mother (or Dame) Juliana or Julian. Her work,…
