Russian Mathematician Rejects One Million Dollar Prize
Grigory Perelman solved the Poincare conjecture and he's declining the hefty Millenium Prize being offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
OK, maybe you can be so smart that you're stoopid...
13 comments:
I guess no one wants American dollars these days.
Actually you have to give him credit for integrity. He had a stance, right or wrong, and stood by it. That is a rare thing today. I can't say I would turn down the mil.
Isn't he a hermit who is um... A little 'off'?
Chuck: I DO!!!! I can use some Americal dollars.
Integirty. Schintegrity. This guy sounds a bit loopy to me. He solved the Poincare conjecture. I have no any idea why he is disagreeing with being paid for it.
Brooke: I think we can conclude that this guy is a loon from his not wanting to accept a prize that he earned.
My God, he solved the Poincare conjecture. Woot!
He deserves the prize!
I can understand turning down the money (sort of), but now he has no control over where the money goes.
I can understand not wanting the money. However he should have donated it to charity.
In my experience, many genius mathematicians lack common sense. Must be some kind of brain syndrome.
He may be a genius, but turning down all that money doesn't sound very smart to me.
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He could have given it to a charity...you're right, he might be real smart, but....
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Mathniks are interesting, but sometimes scary. Ted Kacsynski was a mathematician before he became the Unabomber.
It's funny that this would come up now especially in light of the fact that I'm reading a biography of the Curies and Poincare was very much in their orbit.
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