Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem • Hacker News Board

Re: Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem

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Post by daimyoyo » Tue, May 03, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

shasta wrote: post #3

daimyoyo wrote: post #2

While I can applaud the purity of his dedication to mathematical research, if I were him, I'd take the money. How often will math make you a million dollars?

Thank you for coming forward. It's so rare these days to run into someone who would accept a million dollars.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Re: Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman » Tue, May 03, 2011, 10:11 PM UTC

shasta wrote: post #3

daimyoyo wrote: post #2

While I can applaud the purity of his dedication to mathematical research, if I were him, I'd take the money. How often will math make you a million dollars?

Thank you for coming forward. It's so rare these days to run into someone who would accept a million dollars.

So take the money and donate it. There is a lot of good that you can do with that sort of cash. There is no moral high ground in not taking it.

Re: Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem

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Post by elliptick » Thu, May 05, 2011, 4:48 AM UTC

This happened about a year ago... A big part of rejecting the prize came from his desire to have nothing to do with the math community as a whole. Accepting the prize would be acknowledging it's place in the world.

"To put it short, the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community," Perelman, 43, told Interfax. "I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."