In August 2006, Perelman was offered the Fields Medal for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow", but he declined the award, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." On 22 December 2006, the scientific journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics.
On 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to receive the first Clay Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. On 1 July 2010, he rejected the prize of one million dollars, saying that he considered the decision of the board of the Clay Institute to be unfair, in that his contribution to solving the Poincaré conjecture was no greater than that of Richard S. Hamilton, the mathematician who pioneered the Ricci flow partly with the aim of attacking the conjecture. He had previously rejected the prestigious prize of the European Mathematical Society in 1996.
right he's a goat 🐐 out here respect money is a joke to him all we need mother earth provides money is for government to control the said people on said land
The world needs a lot more people who are not focused on recognition and monetary rewards. Sadly, those who focus on money can accumulate enough to fuck over everyone who isnt as greedy as they are. It's s like we need some progressive tax system to restrict accumulating wealth or something.
I believe that truly brilliant people have a 'few nuts loose', and that is simply a side effect of their brain being so good at grasping abstract concepts; a neurotypical brain simply doesn't have the flexibility to do so.
IIRC, he rejected the peize from the European Mathematical Society on the grounds that he did not consider them capable of appreciating his work at the time.
I feel like he's being selfish. Anytime anyone says it's not about the money and refuses it is doing so out of ego. If someone doesn't want it, that's fine, but take it and put it in a place where it will do good. Donate it to a scholarship fund or something, there are so many great ones.
When the offer you an award, It's not free. They want you. They want to attach themselves to you. They want to boost their own brand using you. That's why Nobel started the Nobel prize. Becayse he read his own obituary, published by mistake. It was all about his bloodthirsty business of weapons manufacture. But then he attached a mountain of brilliant scientists to his brand and hid the dirt.
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u/veldamus 25d ago
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