Right, the analogy between Wiles/Fermat and Perelman/Poincaré so glaringly contradicts what she's saying ("the American model may not be able to produce a break

Right, the analogy between Wiles/Fermat and Perelman/Poincaré so glaringly contradicts what she's saying ("the American model may not be able to produce a breakthrough like the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture" - huh?) that one has to wonder. Perhaps this explains it? Masha Gessen's latest book is [...] a story of Grigory Perelman and the Poincaré Conjecture.