Russian mathematician turns down $1 million prize
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07-02-2010, 01:33 AM
Indeed, yet not that completely unexpected given his former responses to similar events. Something to reflect on, that's for sure.
07-02-2010, 11:03 AM
It's strange. This news is about 1 year old already but only now was published in the site you mention. ▼
07-02-2010, 01:53 PM
I love science, but I also have to eat :-) ▼
07-02-2010, 04:23 PM
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." ▼
07-02-2010, 04:49 PM
At least he peels his own citrus fruit, unlike Paul Erdos, the late ▼
07-02-2010, 05:23 PM
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:-)
07-02-2010, 05:44 PM
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.
07-02-2010, 02:26 PM
Guess he doesn't need to buy any old HP calculators!
07-02-2010, 06:16 PM
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." ▼
07-02-2010, 06:47 PM
Quote:With a million dollars he could leave Russia. ▼
07-03-2010, 10:10 AM
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
07-04-2010, 01:27 PM
[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. |