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Russian math genius Perelman refuses $ 1m prize
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:10:38 GMT
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The Russian math genius Dr Grigori Perelman has turned down a one-million-dollar prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute.

The 44-year-old Russian, who solved the world's toughest math problem, refused the $ 1 million prize for his lack of interest in money or fame.

"He said he would let me know at some point," stated Jim Carlson, president of the US-based Institute.

"He did not give a sense of timing, but I do not expect it will be tomorrow. He is more than extremely brief. He does not say too much," he added. "It is not every day that a person even entertains turning down a million dollars."

Perelman, dubbed —Mathsputin??, currently lives in a 2-bedroom apartment with his elderly mother and sister in St. Petersburg.

The Russian mathematician was offered the prize by the prestigious American institute last week.

This is not the first time Dr Perelman has turned down high honors. He was offered and declined the Fields Medal, the mathematical world's equivalent of a Nobel Prize four years ago.
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Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: –??–?–_–_??–?–_ –—–?–_–_–?–?–_–— –?–—–?–??–_–—–_) (born 13 June, 1966), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In particular, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture. This solves in the affirmative the famous Poincar? conjecture, posed in 1904, which was viewed as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics until it was solved.

In August 2006, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal[1] for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow". Perelman declined to accept the award or to appear at the congress. On 22 December 2006, the journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincar? conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics.[2] He has since ceased working on mathematics. On 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to receive the first Clay Millennium Prize Problems award[3] of US $ 1,000,000, for resolution of the Poincar? conjecture.

Posted by Ccdarling
Yeah, we know money is great and all but it will never buy you happiness and sometimes simple is better and happier. He should take it and give it to charity maybe though. I think we Geminis also have a hard time accepting compliments or rewards, which is why we don't want to people telling us we are hot or good looking all the time. Makes us wonder if this is all they see in us and if there is an alternative motive. Needless to say he does not want people thinking he did this to receive a reward or recognition. He did it simply because he wanted to and to add something to mankind. Us third decan Gems are really good at math for some reason although I find it monotonous and annoying at times.

My point exactly. See, should we just give up on them— It hurts to face that possibility as you know. But, watching people go through the painful process of death hurts us. Escpecially when WE know that the universe put us in their lives for these reasons. What should we do? Our time has come back again. Thoughts/Help.

~GM

Lmao @ this forum.. this goes to show you that us Gems do have a genuine kindred heart but at times it gets overlooked ( more than often) most of the things us gems want 2 know are mostly the unknown. but since nly time will tell we'll be more than ever happy 2 learn, study & grow.