World's cleverest man refused $1million prize

[Ugin]

A Russian awarded $1million (£666,000) for solving one of the most intractable problems in mathematics said yesterday that he does not want the money.
Said to be the world's cleverest man, Dr Grigory Perelman, 44, lives as a recluse in a bare cockroach-infested flat in St Petersburg. He said through the closed door: 'I have all I want.'
The prize was given by the U.S. Clay Mathematics Institute for solving the Poincare Conjecture, which baffled mathematicians for a century. Dr Perelman posted his solution on the internet.
He failed to turn up to receive his prestigious Fields Medal from the International Mathematical Union in Madrid four years ago.

At the time he stated: 'I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

'I'm not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful, that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.'
Neighbour Vera Petrovna said: 'I was once in his flat and I was astounded. 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.

'We are trying to get rid of cockroaches in our block, but they hide in his flat.'
It was in 2003 that Perelman, then a researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, began posting papers online suggesting he had solved the Poincare Conjecture, one of seven major mathematical puzzles for which the Clay Institute is offering $1 million each.

Rigorous tests proved he was correct.

The topological conundrum essentially states that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere.
The puzzle was more than 100 years old when Perelman solved it - and can help determine the shape of the universe.

After 2003 Perelman gave up his job at the Steklov Institute. Friends have been reported as saying he has resigned.

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[kalansing]

wow... may mga tao pa palang ganyan. yan ang true minimalist.

[.]

uu nga, hindi gaya satin sikat lang ng konti lalaban na sa congress.. 

[DigitalMind]

umangat lang gusto na maging gf c angel locsin. tsk

[eveready battery]

sana katulad sya ng mga nasa congress at senate na tatanggihan ang pork barrel.

[Google]

gaya din siya ng isang Japanese Nobel Laureate na tinanggihan ang award

[emj_e2]

umangat lang gusto na maging gf c angel locsin. tsk

                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Yung pinoy na nanalo ng CNN Hero of the Year award?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Once ng tumanggap yata si Albert Einstein ng award he was quoted as saying modestly-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

"...it is a known fact that i was born and that is all that is necessary..."

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ang galing noh? Hindi sya greed sa kung anu pa man.. basta nabubuhay sya masaya na sya..

[voltaman_krc]

tanong: may pinoy na bang katulad nya na tumanggi sa kahit na anung award,etc?

eto dapat ang hangaan ng nakakarami.

[.]

ako palang siguro pag binigyan ng award di ko tatanggapin... 

bakit kasi ang pinoy basta mapagkakakitaan walang kawala yan..

[DigitalMind]

pa forward nga ito kay dingle mingle.