Wednesday 31 March 2010

'Nyet' to $1 million?


 Perelman has been without work for four years and has declined all job offers. He previously worked at the Steklov Mathematics Institute.

"As far as I know, after there was so much media attention ... he did not want to be a public person and to look like an animal in the zoo," Rukshin said.
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From the fevered imagination of trnsnd at 04:12

2 comments:

  1. Audiozobe31 March 2010 at 08:20

    This Perelman is quite the character. They were talking about him the other day on the radio and they were saying that if it weren't for the USSR's collapse, he never would've had the academic freedom needed to find the solution to the Pointcaré conjecture. You'll find more info here:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513870490836470.html

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  2. trnsnd31 March 2010 at 09:21

    excellent article! thanks for the tip!

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