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Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Don Shepherd - 07-01-2010 Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Ángel Martin - 07-02-2010 Indeed, yet not that completely unexpected given his former responses to similar events. Something to reflect on, that's for sure.
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - jbssm - 07-02-2010 It's strange. This news is about 1 year old already but only now was published in the site you mention. Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - bill platt - 07-02-2010 I love science, but I also have to eat :-)
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Dave Shaffer (Arizona) - 07-02-2010 Guess he doesn't need to buy any old HP calculators!
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Gerson W. Barbosa - 07-02-2010 So does he, but apparently he doesn't spend much money on food. Quoting from this link:
"Every day they see him walk to a grocery shop at 1.30pm where he buys the same things: eggs, cheese, spaghetti, sour cream, bread and a kilo of oranges."
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Glenn Shields - 07-02-2010 At least he peels his own citrus fruit, unlike Paul Erdos, the late Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - bill platt - 07-02-2010 I think that article on Paul Erdos was more like 20 years ago! I remember reading in Atlantic or something like it about a "homeless" mathematician who could only wear silk.
I stopped reading Atlantic regularly after college--work and HAM radio and other fun stuff got in the way--so it *must* have been 20 years ago:-)
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Gerson W. Barbosa - 07-02-2010
Quote: Yes, there is: http://www.amazon.com/MAN-WHO-LOVED-ONLY-NUMBERS/dp/0786884061#_
By the way, the grapefruit story can be read at page 20.
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Dusan Zivkovic - 07-02-2010 I recently spoke about this to a colleague of mine, a Russian mathematician, a fellow City geek, who set me straight. "Perelman is a very reasonable chap," he said. "He's much safer and has a much simpler life not possessing one million dollars in Russia." Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - Martin Pinckney - 07-02-2010 Quote:With a million dollars he could leave Russia. Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - designnut - 07-03-2010 I( had a brilliant EE Prof ands I asked hum why he didn't go into industry. He said I have graduate students to do my every bidding, I can order any equipment I want. I make more in the wsummer as a consultant than my salary as a professor. Maybe the man is just where he wants to be. I never made good money, if I hadn't liked the work I w3ould never have done it. Sam 81
Re: Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize - BruceH - 07-04-2010 [quote
Pace current events, if he went to the US he might have to register as an agent of a foreign power. Or in his case, an agent of a foreign geometric topology.
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