[zz]A Million Dollars? No Thanks.

[Jun]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06247.html

Three months ago, a famously impoverished Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was awarded the prestigious $1 million Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize for his groundbreaking work -- having solved a problem of three-dimensional geometry that had resisted scores of brilliant mathematicians since 1904.

Thursday, the institute announced that Perelman, known equally for his brilliance and his eccentricities, formally and finally turned down the award and the money. He didn't deserve it, he told a Russian news service, because he was following a mathematical path set by another.

He is like one of those mad saints out of a Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky novel.

[joe_cool]

我经常听做数学的人提及此人，成名很早，是真正的天才。

In 2006, Perelman turned down another coveted award in mathematics, the Fields Medal

Fields Medal也不要，百万奖金也不要, 要说淡泊名利，他绝对是真正的淡泊名利。

[笑嘻嘻]

同学们，同学们，看到这种天才，感觉难道不像粉红记者看到钟太太吗？

[putaopi]

为什么是看见钟太太？我们又不学数学

[Knowing]

他很有可能就是属于完全不花钱的那种人。

[Jun]

还是孝子呢，上有垂垂老母。真是从古书里走出来的人。

[joe_cool]

Perelman在2002年发表了第一篇关于解决庞加莱猜想的文章，此中他提及他的部分经费来源于10年前在美国访问的三年间的私人积蓄。算起来他在美国访问的时候只有25，6岁。毫无疑问他当时完全可以在美国获得非常好的位置，但他为了能专注于庞加莱猜想，又回到俄罗斯，销声匿迹八年，终于放出大卫星。
"I was partially supported by personal savings accumulated during my visits to the Courant Institute in the Fall of 1992, to the SUNY at Stony Brook in the Spring of 1993, and to the UC at Berkeley as a Miller Fellow in 1993-95. I'd like to thank everyone who worked to make those opportunities available to me."

[Elysees]

同学们，同学们，看到这种天才，感觉难道不像粉红记者看到钟太太吗？

为什么像看见钟太？
我们就纯欣赏一下牛人，又不打算跟他的爱人搞。