50033 Perelman

50033 Perelman (2000 AF48) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 2000 by S. Sposetti at Gnosca. It is named for Grigori Perelman, the Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture.

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    English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
    —S.J. Perelman (1904–1979)