There’s a very nice book about the Poincaré conjecture, going from the roots of geometry in Euclid’s Elements to Perelman’s proof: http://books.google.com/book

There’s a very nice book about the Poincaré conjecture, going from the roots of geometry in Euclid’s Elements to Perelman’s proof: http://books.google.com/books?id=kM8fAQAAIAAJ http://books.google.com/books?id=kM8fAQAAIAAJ At least for me it hit the sweet spot between a rigorous math paper and a good story book.