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Dr Grigori Perelman, a reclusive Russian genius, is refusing to accept the prestigious $1 million "Millennium" mathematics prize awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Perelman was awarded the prize for solving the one-hundred-year-old Poincaré conjecture, one of the most complicated mathematical problems in the world - so complex, in fact, that after Perelman posted his proofs in 2002 it took several years for other experts to confirm he was correct.

Now Perelman's refusal to accept the prize - the second prestigious prize he has refused - has led some to examine his unorthodox life and dub him "Mathsputin."

The 44-year-old Perelman currently resides with his mother and sister in his hometown of St. Petersberg, living extremely humbly. One neighbor told a Moscow newspaper, "He always wears the same tatty coat and trousers. He never cuts his nails or beard. When he walks he simply stares at the ground, rather than looking from side to side."

Another neighbor told of a time she had visited Perelman's apartment due to problems with cockroaches.

"I was once in his flat and I was astounded," she said. "He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress which was left by previous owners -- alcoholics who sold the flat to him."

After performing some teaching in American universities in 2003, Perelman has apparently given up on mathematics, dismayed at the intellectual and moral failings of his peers. Instead, according to reports, he likes to play table tennis against a wall in his apartment. "You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms," he told a journalist who managed to get in touch with him.

A number of appeals have been made to Perelman to accept the prize and give the money to charity. "Each suffering child and each mother entangled in circumstances of her life could receive help," wrote the chairwoman of one Russian children's charity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_511938.html

hmm, genius or idiots.. i dont even know

those are some wicked eyebrows

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Originally Posted by Greenstoner (Post 6879571)

hmm, genius or idiots.. i dont even know

you can't buy more math with money, if thats something he treasures, so be it... but... still fucking retarded, at least he would have been able to get those god damn eye brows plucked for life with $1 million

i don't understand why not just give the money to his friends or family or charity?

i'm sure his mother or sister would enjoy the money?
why doesn't he think of them...

but, most genius do not think like us dumb folk =/ which i guess is why they're genius ?

and it took his peers two years to confirm his work?
lol, i bet they didn't confirm shit. after the second year they were probably like.. F this.. i'm sure he's got it down. haha

There's a fine line between genius and crazy.

i hate how people say that someone should donate it to charity. if the guy doesn't want to accept the prize or anything, it's his right.

i would like some of those mushrooms

He doesn't need to accept the money, he already made so much from the Geico ads.
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So what was the math question??
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Originally Posted by RX_Renesis (Post 6879646)

So what was the math question??
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture

in that page it also says he won a Fields medal but declined it as well

I would like to know what type of mushrooms he's picking that makes him so damn smart

he sounds pretty wonky, even though hes extremely smart

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Originally Posted by AVS_Racing (Post 6879775)

he sounds pretty wonky, even though hes extremely smart

The line between those two traits is very thin.

so smart it made him crazy lol

table tennis? kinda wierd?

= forest gump?

Genius..he chooses not to live the materialistic world. To a point where we think he is crazy for being different.

mo money mo problems

How do you like em apples!

...papa??

PS
if i knew he'd have struck so much fame, i'd have charged him double for the flat!

so what is the question? i wanna see if i can solve and get this 1 mil.. anyone wanna help me out? we can split it. :rofl: