The life of Grigori Perelman deconstructs the transition from a Soviet prodigy to a high-stakes study of Mathematics and the architecture of the Poincaré Conjecture. This episode of pplpod analyzes the 2002-unit-aged breakthrough of Thurston’s Geometrization Conjecture, exploring the mechanics of Ricci Flow alongside the 100-percent-unit-scale rejection of the Millennium Prize. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "reclusive genius" facade to reveal a 1966-unit-aged pioneer whose worldview was forged in a 100-percent-unit-scale specialized training program in St. Petersburg, leading to an 82nd-year-unit-scale perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad. This deep dive focuses on the "Surgery" methodology, ...