Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize 226
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from the can't-buy-me-love dept.
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."
Again? (Score:3, Informative)
Didn't he reject the award repeatedly, over the past few years, every time he was asked? Why are people still annoying the poor guy?
Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
He could just accept in and donate it to charity.
The money already belongs to a charity.
Re:Aid Society! (Score:5, Informative)
"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"
Re:Again? (Score:5, Informative)
Fields (Score:1, Informative)
It's Fields, not Field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal
Not because it's a plural: Fields is a last name.
Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
Given the kind of money math researchers at the university level make, redistributing it to everyone who's contributed to his win would be donating it to charity.
While we're all nitpicking... (Score:5, Informative)
it's Field*s* Medal. Named after the Canadian mathematician, John Charles Fields.
Not Field Medal.
Re:He (Score:1, Informative)
Did you RTFA?
Speaking in fluent English, he wowed his math colleagues and, after returning to Russia, continued to communicate via e-mail with some about his work.