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Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize
krou writes "The Warm Home charity in St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman's home-town, has urged the math genius and recluse to accept the $1m Millennium Prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture, and donate it to charities. Perelman has refused to accept the award, telling one reporter through the closed door of his flat, 'I have all I want,' and another who managed to call him on his mobile, 'You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.'"
Well you stupid antisemite (he is Jewish, as most all great Scientists are, and it is obvious you're a racist), first of all yes you are the only one who "believes" that (note how I did not use the word think, since your kind does not have the mental capacity to produce thought). And second, how could he have expected for it to get so out of hand, he said no, he expected them to leave him alone as any other intelligent human being would expect. They are the ones who are making such big deal out of it, not him...
Why am I wasting my time explaining this to you, you're intelligence is no greater than that of a dog, you don't even understand his contribution of that I am certain. I'll save my time for someone more worthy.
Why's that? I have a lot of respect for the math he did, but I really don't see him as heroic.
He doesn't have to accept the million he can say "award it to so and so" and be done with it. The man is smart but he is no genius ethically, there is so much suffering in the world. Anyone with a brain would find some way to circulate that money to where it is needed in the world. It's not going to save the world but reducing the suffering in the world IMHO should be among the top goals of any intellectual worth his or her salt.
Fuck off.
It's *his* prize and *his* money. *He* can do whatever the hell he wants with it. It's *his* money. As the Russian minister said, and I'm paraphrasing, it is not decent to count others money in their pockets.
I wonder why no one seems to have thought of this possibility.
"I don't want the burden of righting wrongs." Go to Hell, you self-important shit. Take the goddamn money, give it to charity and stop being such a goddamn Aspie.
Fucking hell. This isn't THAT hard to figure out. Use it to feed the hungry. Use it to build a school. Stop being such a fucking antisocial douchebag.
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Because he is courageous enough to reject $1m. Are you?
If someone is courageous enough to jump off a cliff...
Not anyone. He does not speak to reporters and paparazzis which have taken him as a attention monger actors.
A few Chinese mathematicians tried to downplay his work and advertise their own work instead and he did not expected to see such dirty behaviors in scientific community.
I myself went back to university to become a scientist because I could not bear politics in business environments. I went to academics because I thought there is more ethics there.
Now about Chinese. They have conquered scientific journals as editors and reviewers. Now they invent theories (sometimes false, sometimes terrible in quality) and they send those craps to conquered journals. They have conquered the whole scientific publishing chain and they do whatever unethical things you may think of.
"and he really doesn't want the limelight."
The great irony is if he didn't want the limelight he shouldn't have submitted his work or been working on such problems in the first place. It's not a very bright thing to work on important problems which you will know if yousolve will bring you fame in advance and then turn around and say "I don't want the fame".
He signed up for it like an idiot whether he realizes it or not, you'd think he'd have the intelligence to understand the consequences of solving his own areas of study.