Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize

krou writes "The Warm Home charity in St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman's home-town, has urged the math genius and recluse to accept the $1m Millennium Prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture, and donate it to charities. Perelman has refused to accept the award, telling one reporter through the closed door of his flat, 'I have all I want,' and another who managed to call him on his mobile, 'You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.'"

I'm amazed he has a mobile

[LittleBigScript]

Maybe try his facebook.

They don't make recluses like they used to.

'Your disturbing me. I'm picking mushrooms'

[Kitkoan]

Now I know how he figured it out at least. He went out, picked magic mushrooms, ate them and let the universe tell him the answer. No wonder he doesn't want the prize, it should be given to the great mushroom spirits.

Re:'Your disturbing me. I'm picking mushrooms'

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, the mushrooms pick you?

Re:Tools

[Itninja]

Yeah. I mean I used my car to totally kick ass in last years Boston Marathon. I finished it in like 15 minutes. The officcial were real d-bags though and refused to declare me the winner.

Re:I'm amazed he has a mobile

[BoppreH]

His beard does look like it has it's own flora.

Re:I have an idea...

[clarkkent09]

Still better to take it. A million would easily pay for building a moat around his house as well as for some sharks and lasers.

1 million probably isn't worth his effort.

[Narcocide]

Here's my theory. He's a genius, a madman and a recluse, as well as everything else people say about him plus one other note: a mushroom farmer. 1$ million probably isn't even worth his time to open the door. "I have all I want" pretty much sums it up. Take your paltry 1$ million and donate it to an appropriate charity. If you really want a minute of his precious time you'll probably have to raise the figure by a couple orders of magnitude.

Re:This is hilarious

[Anonymous Coward]

And it tastes delicious.

Not Married

[Tablizer]

He must not be married. If I turned down a mil, my wife would kill me, dig me back up, kill me again, film it all, and sell the film rights to recoup it.

Re:An artform.

[fyoder]

as if you could place a price on Shakespeare or a price-tag on Emily Dickinsons' poems.

Shakespeare [amazon.com] : $26.40

Emily Dickinson [amazon.com] : $14.95

Re:Tools

[Samah]

...or own a digital watch!?

I dunno, I still think they're a "pretty neat idea".

He is the Lady Gaga of Math

[Anonymous Coward]

This guy is a game changer and is ridiculing the entire field.

Re:Mr. Perelman

[c6gunner]

Because he is courageous enough to reject $1m. Are you?

No, but I'm so heroic I've managed to reject the temptation to sleep with Natalie Portman. That's WAY more heroic!

Re:This is hilarious

[jpate]

are you sure you would not be too busy picking mushrooms to smash his face in?

Have they tried reverse psychology?

[ciaran_o_riordan]

Ah, never mind, you're probably not smart enough to take the money.

Re:I have an idea...

[oljanx]

Actually, no. You see, sharks are very large creatures with special needs. You can't just dig up a moat and stick sharks in it. Picture something like Sea World, and then imagine it your front yard. Then figure in the difficulty of training sharks to properly use high-powered laser beams. It's quite a bit more expensive than you might think, not something within the reach of your average millionaire. Trust me, I know.

Re:'Your disturbing me. I'm picking mushrooms'

[FooBarWidget]

Rumor has it that anyone who eats those mushrooms will become twice as tall and have the power to break bricks.

$1m or $1M ?

[Anonymous Coward]

$1m (1*10^-3) wouldn't be much of a prize and I'm not sure how you would collect it since it is only a tenth of a cent. The lowest denomination piece of US currency (the penny) is worth ten times that amount.

$1M (1*10^6) would be a nice prize though.