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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:Why by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it's pretty clear that the guy suffers some severe abnormal psychology. Not uncommon among the brilliant.

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  2. What's a Millenium? by gfreeman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is that anything like a Millennium?

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