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

[Daal]

Funny thing is, he will probably get even more attention for turning down the prize

 

[Anaconda]

Quote from saxon22:


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

It's actually well known that Soviet education was excellent and second to none. It's plain hardcore, is the best way to put it. The contrast with American schooling is almost comical.

I do not think it's the same anymore, but it seems that China has retained the Soviet education standard.

 

[Pekelo]

Russian college education for 4 years: $1000

Solving the Poincare conjecture: $1,000,000

Getting ride of cockroaches in your flat: PRICELESS

 

[jagadish]

Dialogue in a recent Hollywood movie.

Russians are smarter & determined than Americans. But they lost because they're atheists.

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from MohdSalleh:

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

# 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

How about:

# 8 The Holy Grail of trading, a consistently profitable strategy under all kind of market circumstances

Which one of the above 8 has an actual practical usefulness?

 

[nitro]

The mere enumeration of Grothendieck's best known contributions is overwhelming: topological tensor products and nuclear spaces, sheaf cohomology as derived functors, schemes, K-theory and Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch, the emphasis on working relative to a base, defining and constructing geometric objects via the functors they are to represent, fibred categories and descent, stacks, Grothendieck topologies (sites) and topoi, derived categories, formalisms of local and global duality (the 'six operations'), étale cohomology and the cohomological interpretation of L-functions, crystalline cohomology, 'standard conjectures', motives and the 'yoga of weights', tensor categories and motivic Galois groups. It is difficult to imagine that they all sprang from a single mind.

 

[mgookin]

http://www.claymath.org/

it's on the front page there. no rumors - just facts

 

[DT-waw]

Quote from Bob111:

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he should accept the prize. then he should dress like on the pic above, go on a date with an average, poor russian girl. talk about the mathematics during the whole time...
then take her hand and propose a drive home. in a new, shiny lamborghini.
look on her face: priceless

 

[stock777]

mofo gots you all fooled.

 

[Pension_Admin]

Quote from stock777:

mofo gots you all fooled.