man solves one of world's greatest mathematical puzzles and turns down 1 million

[Bob111]

Quote from Martinghoul:

This all happened a while ago. Why do people suddenly decide to bring it up now?

it is.. few years ago..
actual picture-

 

[dandxg]

Quote from Bob111:

it is.. few years ago..
actual picture-

Interesting. Smart yes, wise no. Living like a bum and turning down $1 million dollar prize.

 

[Bob111]

example of good education in wrong hands-

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[annaland]

Quote from MohdSalleh:

World's cleverest man turns down $1million prize after solving one of mathematics' greatest puzzles

By Will Stewart
Last updated at 6:00 PM on 22nd March 2010




An impoverished Russian who has been called the world's cleverest man today said he does not need a $1million prize awarded by a prestigious American institute for solving one of the most intractable problems in mathematics.

Dr Grigory Perelman prefers to live as a recluse in his grim cockroach-infested flat in St Petersburg.

Told about the financial prize for solving the Poincare Conjecture which had confounded mathematicians for a century, he said through his closed front door: 'I don't need anything. I have all I want.'

The bearded genius, aged 44, was named last week as winner of the $1 million prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Four years ago, after posting his solution on the web, he failed to turn up to receive his prestigious Fields Medal from the International Mathematical Union in Madrid.

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 from mathematics altogether - finding the subject too painful to discuss.

That's awesome!! Thanks for the article
I think Grisha was a visiting professor at several US Universities.

 

[nkhoi]

wait until they built a high freq trading machine.

 

[MohdSalleh]

6 more to go ,maybe one of the geniuses on ET will do it

The Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. As of March 2010, six of the problems remain unsolved. A correct solution to any of the problems results in a US$1,000,000 prize (sometimes called a Millennium Prize) being awarded by the institute. Only the Poincaré conjecture has been solved, by Grigori Perelman.

# 1 P versus NP
# 2 The Hodge conjecture
# 3 The Poincaré conjecture (proven)
# 4 The Riemann hypothesis
# 5 Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
# 6 Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
# 7 The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

 

[MohdSalleh]

Quote from Martinghoul:

This all happened a while ago. Why do people suddenly decide to bring it up now?

they only decided to award him the money recently

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 Poincaré conjecture.

 

[TigerBalm]

Thanks for that. Good one!

Quote from shortie:

every man needs to be approached differently when trying to give him something he does not want.

in this case instead of "we want to give you $1M" they should have said "your roaches are starving, we will be buying food for them for the next 200 years".

 

[nkhoi]

Quote from shortie:

every man needs to be approached differently when trying to give him something he does not want.

in this case instead of "we want to give you $1M" they should have said "your roaches are starving, we will be buying food for them for the next 200 years".

but he will say your math is so painfully wrong, get outta here!

 

[FightTheFuture]

Quote from saxon22:

His decision must be incomprehensible to most who never have known any other system but capitalism.

BTW. I guess all that inferior Soviet education was not really that inferior.

I am sure millions who work in Wall Marts and McDonalds in this country have so much more to show for (materialistically speaking).

To refuse the prize or give it to charity would be anyone's free will and nothing to do with capitalism or socialism and not hard to understand.

Doubtful the Soviet education had anything to do with his innate savant ability to solve the problem.

A savant with mental illness totally obsessed with only his world and not a care for anyone.



''We are trying to get rid of cockroaches in our block, but they hide in his flat.'

"prefers to live as a recluse in his grim cockroach-infested flat

"He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress