Perelman in a Subway
One Russian blogger have met Gregory Perelman, Russian mathematician who refused to get $1,000,000 Field’s prize some months ago. He didn’t give any interviews and refused to meet anybody. And here he is, in St. Petersburg subway (his native city). According to the comment by the guy who made photos: “He looks like totally homeless trash, he had a very big nail on one of his fingers and was constantly touching with it his mouth. I was amazed why nobody recognized him, I was making a photos with my camphone trying not to attract his attention. Later, when I told my friends that I met Perelman in the subway many just asked “Who is he?” so I understood why nobody recognized him.”
You can also read more about Perelman refuse to get the medal and million dollar prize here.
Maths Class in Russian College
A funny video, made in Russian university during a maths class. A guy starts to behave himself crazy, the professor lady stands stunned, can’t say anything, other students are amazed.
This reminded me about bright Russian mathematician Gregory Perelman and his also not so common behavior, and I wondered was he also making such performances while studying maths?
Gregory Perelman and Bin Laden screenshot
This a Yahoo.com screenshot of the article about Gregory Perelman, the mathematician who refused million dollar prize and Fields medal, by which he was awarded for Poincare conjecture solution, one of the hardest mathematical tasks of 20th century. And now he cannot be reached by any media for an interview or photo. In related posts down at this page you can see a link to an article how Russian TV media number one took his old photo and changed his appearance (his suit and tie) to present it before hundred million audience in night news programm.
And here is a screenshot of Gregory Perelman article in Yahoo, and Bin Laden, the terrorist number one photo occasionally was placed by banner rotating system of Yahoo on the same page. You can call it artificial intellect but they really look alike, and not only in the terms of appearance, but both cannot be found for a simple interview.
First Channel Russia photoshopped Perelman photo
In modern Russia there are around 20-30 TV channels, but the most important to any Russian middle aged person is “Channel 1” or “The First Channel”. This channel has the most wide coverage area and is being watched regularly by the majority of the population in Russia. I think that every citizen of Russia who owns TV-set watches “Channel 1” from time to time.
So a few days ago there was a “Fields Medal” event, and Russian genius, Dr. Gregory Perelman, the bright mathematician who solved the “Poincare Conjecture” refused his award. It’s a well known story now, being discussed a lot. What is interesting – Mr. Perelman has left St. Petersburg where he lived and worked, and nobody knows where is he. And even the national media number one, “The First Channel” could not find him for an interview. They had to have him in the night news regarding his unclaimed Fields Medal and another 1 million dollar prize – but nobody managed to find him. So they decided to take a picture of the professor from the source known for anybody now, from Internet. They dug a little and got Associated Press image that was shown on different other medias. But editors in “Channel 1” decided that the exterior of the genius is not cool, they couldn’t imagine they would broadcast somebody with a brilliant mind and not wearing a tie and a suit. That are the traces of the Soviet thinking, for many years people were kept very strict and nothing changed now. Look what they have done:
Gregory Perelman at High School
This is the photo of Gregory Perelman while he was studying in High School, at 1982. He was already one of the most brilliant young mathematicians in Soviet Union and was taking part in the world young mathematician contests.
Gregory Perelman is rightmost on the photo.
Perelman, “the maths genius living in property”, today officially refused Field’s medal
We already have mentioned the strange behavior of Gregory Perelman.
Today the Fields medal congress has started in Madrid, and their press service officially declared that Perelman refuses to accept his Field’s medal, an award that’s being considered as important among mathematicians as Nobel prize among other scientists.
It is not known why Nobel chose not to establish a prize in Mathematics, although there are several theories about the lack of one, nevertheless the history of the Fields Medal begins in the Committee of the International Congress set up by the University of Toronto in November of 1923, with the purpose of organizing the 1924 Congress to be held in Toronto.
This decision of the bright mathematician confuses the Field’s medal commission. They actually now don’t know to whom they can award the prize. (more…)
Strange behavior of the man who solved Poincaré conjecture, the great mathematics problem. He refuses the prize.
Gregory Perelman, the man who has solved one of the most complicated mathematical mysteries, which were an object of attraction of the most brilliant minds of the world during one hundred years. And now the world can face a new surprise from this man – he can refuse his award for his prominent mathematical solution, he can refuse the Fields medal.
During the millennia mathematicians have pointed to a few mathematical enigmas, and one of the greatest among them is a famous Poincaré conjecture. During 100 years since 1904 none of the numerous versions that were proposed by different mathematicians were rejected as incorrect. Even a few years ago the idea of this task to be solved seemed to be unreal, and nobody expected the right solution in next few decades. But in November 2002, Russian mathematician from St. Petersburg, Gregory Perelman, son of the famous Russian physicist, author of well known in Russia course of physics “Amusing Physics”, astounded the mathematical world by posting to arXiv the first of a series of eprints in which he claimed to have outlined a proof of Thurston’s geometrization conjecture, a result that includes the Poincaré conjecture as a particular case. (more…)
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