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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 $1m Millennium Prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture, and donate it to charities. Perelman has refused to accept the award, telling one reporter through the closed door of his flat, 'I have all I want,' and another who managed to call him on his mobile, 'You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.'"
Maybe try his facebook.
They don't make recluses like they used to.
Now I know how he figured it out at least. He went out, picked magic mushrooms, ate them and let the universe tell him the answer. No wonder he doesn't want the prize, it should be given to the great mushroom spirits.
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Yeah. I mean I used my car to totally kick ass in last years Boston Marathon. I finished it in like 15 minutes. The officcial were real d-bags though and refused to declare me the winner.
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Still better to take it. A million would easily pay for building a moat around his house as well as for some sharks and lasers.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Here's my theory. He's a genius, a madman and a recluse, as well as everything else people say about him plus one other note: a mushroom farmer. 1$ million probably isn't even worth his time to open the door. "I have all I want" pretty much sums it up. Take your paltry 1$ million and donate it to an appropriate charity. If you really want a minute of his precious time you'll probably have to raise the figure by a couple orders of magnitude.
And it tastes delicious.
He must not be married. If I turned down a mil, my wife would kill me, dig me back up, kill me again, film it all, and sell the film rights to recoup it.
Table-ized A.I.
as if you could place a price on Shakespeare or a price-tag on Emily Dickinsons' poems.
Shakespeare : $26.40
Emily Dickinson : $14.95
Loose lips lose spit.
...or own a digital watch!?
I dunno, I still think they're a "pretty neat idea".
Homonyms are fun!
You're driving your car, but they're riding their bikes there.
This guy is a game changer and is ridiculing the entire field.
Because he is courageous enough to reject $1m. Are you?
No, but I'm so heroic I've managed to reject the temptation to sleep with Natalie Portman. That's WAY more heroic!
are you sure you would not be too busy picking mushrooms to smash his face in?
Ah, never mind, you're probably not smart enough to take the money.
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Actually, no. You see, sharks are very large creatures with special needs. You can't just dig up a moat and stick sharks in it. Picture something like Sea World, and then imagine it your front yard. Then figure in the difficulty of training sharks to properly use high-powered laser beams. It's quite a bit more expensive than you might think, not something within the reach of your average millionaire. Trust me, I know.
$1m (1*10^-3) wouldn't be much of a prize and I'm not sure how you would collect it since it is only a tenth of a cent. The lowest denomination piece of US currency (the penny) is worth ten times that amount.
$1M (1*10^6) would be a nice prize though.