About 10 days ago, I wrote about [Grigory Perelman and his proof of the Poincare conjecture][poincare]. This is a quick followup. There’s a more detailed story over on [Seed][seed].
\nThe Fields medal was supposed to be presented this past week, and they planned on presenting it to Perelman.
\nHe turned it down. He refused to come to the conference where the award was presented; refused to accept the award in absentia. He wants nothing to do with it. Even a personal visit from the head of the Fields committee to his mothers apartment in St. Petersburg wasn’t enough to convince him to come out of isolation and accept the prize.
\nHe’s also refusing the $1 million Clay award; a bounty put forward to be collected by whoever eventually either proved or disproved the Poincare conjecture.
\n[seed]: http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/08\/not_feeling_the_fields.php
\n[poincare]: http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2006\/08\/the_poincar_conjecture.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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