Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 20, 2009 @11:17AM from the another-tortured-genius dept.

EagleHasLanded writes "Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman doesn't talk to journalists. Actually, he doesn't talk to anyone anymore. So we'll have to settle for insights via his biographer, Masha Gessen, who, strangely enough, has never talked to him either. But she has spoken with just about everyone who has ever had any significant interaction with Perelman, and the result is the book Perfect Rigor, which more than adequately explains why Perelman has gone into self-imposed exile, and why he probably won't collect the million dollars he won by solving the Poincare Conjecture."

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Re:Knows as much about ethics as he does mathemati by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-20 12:23 · Score: -1, Troll

If he were so smart, he'd know there is only one consciousness and that you cannot exclude yourself from it.
There is only God.
Re:generally you're not geniuses by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-20 16:42 · Score: -1, Troll

Stereotype much?
Re:Knows as much about ethics as he does mathemati by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-20 22:08 · Score: -1, Troll

You have a lot to learn, then, my young Padawan.
Wow, you're a fuckhead. No wonder your only facebook friends are ugly guys with beards.