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Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-buy-me-love dept.

Kleiba writes "After turning down the prestigious Field Medal in 2006 for his contributions to mathematics, the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman announced yesterday that he is rejecting a $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute for solving the Poincare conjecture."

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  1. Re:Aid Society! by dnahelicase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was under the impression that he publicly stated why he wouldnt accept the money, and it was basically: "If I had that money then I would feel compelled to use it to do good charitable things, but what I really want to with my life is more math and as such, that money would be a burden"

    Seems fitting he might use that money to build a spacecraft, even if it does look like junk, and finally solve the big question about how long it actually takes to do the Kessel Run - and if it's measured in time or distance.

    Though I guess that would be if a physicist won the prize, not a mathematician