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Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize

Posted by timothy on from the leave-the-guy-alone-already dept.

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.'"

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  1. This guy... by logback · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is a badass and sets the standard got life.

  2. Re:'Your disturbing me. I'm picking mushrooms' by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ... "picking mushrooms?"

    Those must be some powerful 'shrooms!