Technical genius doesn’t always have the best judgment. That $1,000,000 could have been put to good use for others even if he is too proud to accept it.
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I guess that the provider of the prize money could had donated it on his behalf. That would have been a better idea.
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It's extremely tragic fact. Grigori Perelman quit his job and abandoned mathematics altogether in 2005. He said 'I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo' Anyway, Poincaré Conjecture is elevated to the status of a theorem because it's proven.
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I believe he was also unemployed and living with his mom at that time too.
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On declining the Fields Medal: "Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed." He refuses to talk to journalists. He told one who managed to reach him on his mobile: "You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman …
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The man just wanted to be left alone to do his mathematics.
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Very smart guy.. but zero emotional intelligence..
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