"I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo. I'm not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me." - When Grigori Perelman declined Fields Medal and Millennium Prize

What's his standing in the mathematician community? Is he widely known among students and professors? Was he internally awarded the 'balls of steel' award? :D What's the general opinion here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#Fields_Medal_and_Millennium_Prize

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Satoshi Nakamoto = Grigori perelman

Anybody else found it fascinating and absolutely astounding we have no idea who Nakamoto is?

I think perelman sums him up the best, he was offered the most prestigious mathematics medal 'The field medal' yet declined it stating "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo."

These two have the selflessness so alike.

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Life After Poincare: Grigori Perelman (Part 1 of n) youtube.com/watch?v=zu89c…
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The reason behind Grigori Perelman's rejection of the Fields Medal,

The reason behind Grigori Perelman's rejection of the Fields Medal

raises a lot of question, and perhaps the truth is that Grigori Perelman does not trust a Mathematical institution that supports false Mathematics mixed with the illusion of infinity, which confirms perhaps that Grigori Perelman knows that infinity has nothing to do with Mathematics.

Does this mean that Grigori Perelman may believe that Numbers have an end and he does not want to disclose that yet?

-Mohamed Ababou-

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TIL in 1996 mathematician Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman turned down a prize awarded to him by the European Congress of Mathematicians. In 2006 he rejected the Fields Medal, equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics. In 2010 he rejected the first Clay Millennium Prize prize of one million dollars. wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigor…
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TIL about Grigori Perelman the mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture one of the 7-millennium problems and denied the million dollar prize money as well as the fields medal. Rest of the 6 still remain unsolved. famous-mathematicians.com…
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TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician and the only person to have solved a Clay Millennium Prize problem for which he declined the $1 million prize. Grigori Perelman also declined mathematics' most prestigious award, the Fields Medal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri…
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Grigori Perelman documentary youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1W2…
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TIL Grigori Perelman, best known for resolving the Poincaré Conjecture and declining a $1,000,000 prize for doing so, is unemployed and living with his mother. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.…
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Guest Request, *Grigori Perelman* or Edward Witten.

Dear lex, if you can get us particularly Grigori Perleman, that woud be super amazing.Thank you.

With love,

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TIL Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics. A correct solution to any of the problems gets awarded $1 million to the discoverer(s). To date, the only problem to have been solved is the Poincaré conjecture, solved by Grigori Perelman in 2003 who declined the prize money of $1M. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil…
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TIL of Grigori Perelman, the mathematician who finally proved the 100-year-old Poincare Conjecture, but who wouldn't accept the Fields Medal for his work or the $1 million prize money that went with it news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/85854…
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Count Dankula - Mini Mad Lads - Grigori Perelman, The Mad Mathematician youtube.com/watch?v=FWS2m…
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Many great mathematicians (eg Grigori Perelman) studied math just for the fun of it. Would would be a study plan or routine to make math only pleasurable?

I came across an article on Perelman today, which mentioned how "pure" his interest in mathematics was. He didn't care about anything outside of mathematics -- he would actually decline academic positions and accolades. I wonder whether Perelman and others didn't study math in a different way than the typical high school mantra of "memorize this formula and answer the questions". Did they study it like a guitarist playing around with chords to make an interesting riff? What are they doing that allows them to find unadulterated interest in the material?

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TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician. The only person ever to solve one of the seven Millennium Problems, to which a prize of $1,000,000 is attached. He declined all but one of his awards and his $1 million prize money. Disappointed with academia, he vanished from the public eye. reddit.com/r/todayilearne…
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TIL that Grigori Perelman refused million dollars in cash and the Field's medal that he had won for proving Thurston's geometrization conjecture, a mathematical problem that no one was able to solve for over 100 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri…
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Blender Doughnut, level: Grigori Perelman, because if one travels earth at constact direction ends at starting point, is not enough proof that earth is a sphere.
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If you get to meet the great mathematician, Grigori Perelman, what question would you ask?
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TIL Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, successfully proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium problems) in papers made available in 2002 and 2003. When his work survived review, he was offered a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize, both of which he turned down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri…
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Oh my God it’s Grigori Perelman
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TIL of Grigori Perelman, a mathematician who in 2003 proved the Poincaré conjecture--a long unsolved problem in mathematics--and later declined the Fields Medal, $1M Clay Millennium Prize and other awards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri…
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Grigori Perelman, el matemático asceta que renunció a un millón de dólares hipertextual.com/2018/07/…
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Grigori Perelman documental (subtítulos en español) (^_^)

Documental sobre Grisha Perelmán, el matemático ruso que rechazó la Medalla Fields (Nobel de las matemáticas) y el premio de un millón de dolares por demostrar la Conjetura Poincaré. Recuerda activar los subtitulos en español.

Enlace a la información: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXOjntWuAE&feature=youtu.be

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Here is a good explanation of the Poincaré Conjecture, the first and only one of the Millennium Problems solved (proved by Grigori Perelman) google.com/amp/s/laplacia…
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Grigori Perelman explains why he turned down $1 million ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/g…
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People who have been to Grigori Perelman talks at MIT and a couple of other places, what is he like?

Grigori Perelman is the person who solved the “Poincaré conjecture”, he has declined most mathematical rewards in:

EMS Prize Fields Medal Millennium

He is very media shy and is never seen, he barely did any public talks, but I watched a video of Numberphile where someone mentions that he has done some public talks at MIT and some other places.

What was he like? What did he talk about?

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TIL after having solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems (Poincaré conjecture), Grigori Perelman refused his 1M dollars award. When asked why he refused from his award, Perelman responded: "I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?" lesswrong.com/lw/5ow/grig…
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long excerpt number one; decapatalized. denumerified. whorf replaced with grigori perelman.

grigori perelman inspiration from einsteinian physics

in his interpretation of hopi time grigori perelman was influenced by einstein's theory of relativity, which was developed in the first decades of the century and impacted the general zeitgeist. grigori perelman, an engineer by profession, in fact made occasional reference to physical relativity, and he adopted the term "linguistic relativity," reflecting the general concept of the different but equally valid interpretations of some aspects of physical reality by different observers due to differences in their (for einstein) physical circumstances or (for grigori perelman) their psychological-linguistic circumstances.

the most salient points involve the concepts of simultaneity and spacetime. In his 0000 special relativity paper, einstein maintained that two given events can legitimately be called simultaneous if and only if they take place at the same point in time and in the same point in space. no two events which take place at a spatial distance from one another can legitimately be declared to be simultaneous in any absolute sense, for the judgement of simultaneity or non-simultaneity will depend on the physical circumstances (to be exact: the relative motion) of the observers. this difference is no artifact; each of the observers is correct (and is wrong only to the extent he or she insists that another observer is incorrect).

hermann minkowski, in his seminal 0000 address to the congress of german physicists, translated einstein's 0000 mathematical equations into geometric terms. minkowski famously declared:

"henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."

spatial distance and temporal distance between any two events was now replaced by a single absolute distance in spacetime.

heynick points to several passages in grigori perelman’s writings on the Hopis which parallel einsteinian concepts such as:

"time varies with each observer and does not permit of simultaneity" 0000

"the hopi metaphysics does not raise the question whether the things at a distant village exist at the same moment as those in one's own village, for it ... says that any 'events' in the distant village can be compared to any events in one's own village only by an interval of magnitude that has both time and space forms in it." 0000

The concept of a "simultaneous now" throughout the cosmos was

... keep reading on reddit ➡

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TIL that Grigori Perelman solved 1 of the Millennium Prize Problem but rejected the $1,000,000 prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi…
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Elusive mathematician Grigori Perelman may not show up to claim his $1M prize for solving Poincaré's conjecture. nytimes.com/2010/03/21/sc…
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Grigori Perelman [CC] (2014) - Documentary about the reclusive Russian mathematician who proved the Poincare conjecture and then refused a million dollar prize youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1W2…
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What Grigori Perelman mean by this quote?

When he asked why he refused the million dollars he said: "Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

I know it is a bit of dumb question, but I never got what he exactly meant by this.

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Grigori Perelman, a Russian math genius, has refused to accept the $1 million prize for solving one of the most complicated mathematical problems in the world huffingtonpost.com/2010/0…
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Shattered Genius --- On the trail of Grigori Perelman, brilliant Russian mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and later turned down a $1m reward for his work. brettforrest.com/articles…
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Grigori Perelman, el matemático asceta que renunció a un millón de dólares (^_^)

Las calles de Kupchino están cortadas por el mismo patrón que la mayoría de áreas suburbanas de Rusia.

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(^_^) "Grigori Perelman, el matemático que renunció a un millón de dólares" https://t.co/zFrTNgaZEq

"Grigori Perelman, el matemático que renunció a un millón de dólares" https://t.co/zFrTNgaZEq

— Yo (@yoakyny) July 23, 2018

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