The New Yorker has an interesting piece up about the characters involved in the
Poincare Conjecture. I have to say,
Grigori Perelman seems out of central casting for
Simon Baron-Cohen. And the behavior of the Chinese mathematicians is remiscient of some of the problems pointed out by Richard Nisbett in
The Geography of Thought in regards to the development of a science-for-science's-sake culture in East Asian cultures.