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Feynman: honor bothers me, …… it hurts me.
Perelman added, "I can't say I'm outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest."[38] He has also said that "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated."[38]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
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Born13 June 1966
NationalityRussianCitizenshipRussiaAlma materLeningrad State University(PhD 1990)
Known for
- Riemannian geometry
- Geometric topology
- Proof of the soul conjecture
- Proof of the Poincaré conjecture
Awards
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society Prize (1991), accepted
- EMS Prize (1996), declined
- Fields Medal (2006), declined
- Millennium Prize (2010), declined
Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsThesisSaddle Surfaces in Euclidean Spaces (1990)Doctoral advisor
Fields Medal and Millennium Prize[edit]
In May 2006, a committee of nine mathematicians voted to award Perelman a Fields Medal for his work on the Ricci flow.[38] However, Perelman declined to accept the prize. Sir John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, approached Perelman in Saint Petersburg in June 2006 to persuade him to accept the prize. After 10 hours of attempted persuasion over two days, Ball gave up. Two weeks later, Perelman summed up the conversation as follows: "He proposed to me three alternatives: accept and come; accept and don't come, and we will send you the medal later; third, I don't accept the prize. From the very beginning, I told him I have chosen the third one ... [the prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed."[38] "I'm not interested in money or fame,' he is quoted to have said at the time. '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."[48] Nevertheless, on 22 August 2006, Perelman was publicly offered the medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid "for his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow".[49] He did not attend the ceremony, and declined to accept the medal, making him the only person to decline this prestigious prize.[7][50]
He had previously rejected a prestigious prize from the European Mathematical Society.[7]
On 18 March 2010, Perelman was awarded a Millennium Prize for solving the problem.[51] On June 8, 2010, he did not attend a ceremony in his honor at the Institut Océanographique, Paris to accept his $1 million prize.[52] According to Interfax, Perelman refused to accept the Millennium prize in July 2010. He considered the decision of the Clay Institute unfair for not sharing the prize with Richard S. Hamilton,[5] and stated that "the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community. I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."[6]
The Clay Institute subsequently used Perelman's prize money to fund the "Poincaré Chair", a temporary position for young promising mathematicians at the Paris Institut Henri Poincaré.[53]
Possible withdrawal from mathematics[edit]
Perelman quit his job at the Steklov Institute in December 2005.[54] His friends are said to have stated that he currently finds mathematics a painful topic to discuss; by 2010, some even said that he had entirely abandoned mathematics.[55]
Perelman is quoted in a 2006 article in The New Yorker saying that he was disappointed with the ethical standards of the field of mathematics. The article implies that Perelman refers particularly to alleged efforts of Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau to downplay Perelman's role in the proof and play up the work of Cao and Zhu. Perelman added, "I can't say I'm outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest."[38] He has also said that "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated."[38]
This, combined with the possibility of being awarded a Fields medal, led him to state he had quit professional mathematics by 2006. He said that "As long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice. Either to make some ugly thing or, if I didn't do this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and say nothing. That is why I had to quit." (The New Yorker authors explained Perelman's reference to "some ugly thing" as "a fuss" on Perelman's part about the ethical breaches he perceived.)[56]
It is uncertain whether his resignation from Steklov and subsequent seclusion mean that he has ceased to practice mathematics. Fellow countryman and mathematician Yakov Eliashberg said that, in 2007, Perelman confided to him that he was working on other things but it was too premature to talk about it. He is said to have been interested in the past in the Navier–Stokes equations and the problem of their existence and smoothness.[57]
In 2014, Russian media reported that Perelman was working in the field of nanotechnology in Sweden.[58] However, shortly afterwards, he was spotted again in his native hometown, Saint Petersburg.[58]