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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because he's one dumb motherfucker, motherfucker !

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

    Is that anything like a Millennium?

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  4. Re:A true mathmetician by JamesP · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gee, do you mean that to be a true mathematician you have to be a social outcast and refuse a $1M dollar price while unemployed... Andrew Wiles would like a word

    And then people are supposed to not feel weird about the stereotype

    Grigory is a prime example of mental disease.

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  5. you have the IQ of an oyster... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's just a stinking communist like all the rest where he comes from..

  6. Re:Am I the only one cynical enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Idiot.