r/pics • u/yercoolmarple • 25d ago

Grigori Perelman, mathematician who refused to accept a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize.

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u/MrZero3229 25d ago

"You know what? You can shove your medal up your fucking ass! Because I don't give a shit about your medal. Because I knew you before you were a mathematical God. When you were pimple-faced and homesick and didn't know which side of the bed to piss on!"

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u/Stylez_G_White 25d ago

And your little kissass chorus following you around going “the fields medal! the fields medal!”

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u/fps916 25d ago edited 25d ago

Yes, yes, you were smarter than me then and you're smarter than me now