The Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, the greatest living genius of mathematics, has been waiting in vain in Paris. The Clay Mathematics Institute was going to give you a statuette and a prize of one million dollars in credit for s been able to solve the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Problems. However, Perelman has not been submitted, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Despite the absence of Perelman, it is a homage by the Institute Henri Poincaré, with a cycle of three-day conference dedicated entirely to Perelman. "We announce that the prize is awarded to Mr. Perelman. Many mathematicians paid tribute, noted that his work marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new, "said James Carlson, director of the Clay Institute, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The prize money attached two awards. A stay in Paris until Perelman want to pick it up. And another was given to Francois Poincaré, grandson of the mathematician Henri Poincaré, but remain in the Parisian institute is named after Henri Poincaré. The Clay Institute's director explains why Russian scientist scorns the activities organized in their honor. "It's his decision and we respect it," simply noted.
Guess he has solved the Russian genius was formulated by French mathematician Henri Poincare in 1904. Grigori Perelman was first published in 2002 a work dedicated to William Thurston hypothesis, which is apparent right from the Poincare Conjecture. In 2006, Perelman was awarded the medal Fields for solving this mathematical problem, but then also refused to accept it.
mathematician flatly refuses to deal with the press and speak in public. He practically lives in poverty, the small pension her mother whom she cares, and you earn by tutoring math.
The brilliant Russian mathematician and rejected, in 2006, picking the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel recognition of mathematics and worth $ 10,000. That edition of the Fields was held in Madrid and the prizes were presented by King Juan Carlos himself. Perelman said then not be interested either in the award or money.
And last March, when the Clay Institute decided to award the prize of one million dollars for his achievement, Grigori Perelman said only reporters through the closed door of his tiny apartment in St. Petersburg, where he lives with his mother, who "has it all and does not need money." Something that, according to their own neighbors, is far from true, as Perelman practically live in the misery of her mother's small pension and what wins for math tutoring. The Millennium Prize Foundation established by Clay became, thus, in the second award to the resolution of the conjecture Poincaré rejects Perelman.
was in 2000 when the prestigious American institution decided to award a million dollars to those who managed to solve the seven great mathematical problems facing scientists. Of the seven, only one, the Poincaré conjecture has been resolved. And the man who has achieved so far has rejected the award.
Meanwhile, Perelman, who claims to have withdrawn from mathematics to avoid becoming a "monkey show", would, according to David, one of his best friends, working hard on another challenge, the mathematical proof of the existence of God. "We friends since childhood, says David to Pravda, and he is a man deeply ascetic and spiritual. His apartment is richly decorated with icons. He wears a beard and large crucifixes, and always has a rosary in his pocket. Pray every night and is convinced that he succeeded in proving the existence of God. " If you really have done it, and publish on the Internet (as it did with the Poincare conjecture, a question that had been open 109 years), we must start thinking in new awards for this ascetic sullen and privileged mind. Who knows, maybe if it does start to show up and leave once their withdrawal and silence.
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