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Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize
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."
Ah, so apple should have the right to make all of OS X and web kit closed source then? After all, they finished it, that's what's important.
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