How long does it take to read Perfect Rigor?
Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen takes about 4 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 260 pages, about 71,500 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A sociological and anthropological biography of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved Poincare's Conjecture, becoming the first person to win a million-dollar prize (which he refused to accept) from by the Clay Mathematical Institute for solving one of their Millennium Problems.
Subjects: Mathematicians, biography, Poincare conjecture, Mathematicians, Poincaré conjecture, Biography, Mathematics -- Formulae