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Masha Gessen

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

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