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The 7 pages that link to Grigori Perelman, each with the reason it gives.

• Fields MedalCompared with: His refusal made visible that accepting the medal is a personal choice.

• Poincaré conjectureRelated: His papers established the estimates and extinction results that complete the Poincaré proof.

• Ricci flowRelated: Perelman supplied key estimates and surgery arguments that completed Hamilton’s program.

• William ThurstonRelated: Perelman completed the geometrization program Thurston had conjectured.

• Millennium Prize ProblemsRelated: His proof resolved one prize problem, while he declined its million-dollar award.

• Geometrization conjectureRelated: His Ricci-flow papers supplied the decisive proof.

• Generalized Poincaré conjectureRelated: His proof settled the original three-dimensional case.