A reclusive Russian genius has refused to accept $1m (£667,000) in prize money for solving the Poincare Conjecture, one of the most difficult puzzles in mathematics.
Dr Grigori Perelman, who has been dubbed "the smartest man in the world", refused the money, despite living in poverty in a cockroach- infested flat in St Petersburg.

When told of the prize, which was offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts to anyone who could solve the conundrum, the Daily Mail reports that he refused to open the door, saying only: "I don't need anything. I have all I want."

The Poincare Conjecture basically asserts that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere and had confounded maths experts for more than a century.

But in 2003 Mr Perelman, who was working as a researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St Petersburg, began posting papers on the internet suggesting he had solved the puzzle.

Rigorous tests proved he was correct.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7509563/Worlds-smartest-man-refuses-1m-prize-for-solving-mathematics-puzzle.html

is he smarter than okon lagos

i guess he has no Nigerian origin in him,, otherwise it will be different story.
i'm always in love with mathematics since 2014 BC

Another clever Jew, hardly surprising

Please this news is as old as 2013....
I've read this before!

When some are chasing money,this one is running away from money,he's the smartest indeed,he's lucky he's not a Nigerian,his children would never forgive him

He's much different from the man who solved the Fermat's last theorem,that one loves all the fame and happy about it,he was even knighted,i'm sure this guy would reject knighthood if he was offered

I kept on laughing while reading d news. This is cos of d interesting way d man is contented. Waoh! This one no be ordinary being o!

Dude! Why not take this money and donate it to charity! Or possibly build a Free health center?
Haba!!

Something sure motivates this man and it definitely isn't money. He's turned down a number of prestigious awards and prizes. As a fellow student in the ever expanding academy of knowledge, I doff my fedora. *drops pen for Grigori*

Lmao d man no want una money. Send am to my account abeg

talk about something money cannot buy, that's his passion. if they really want the puzzle solved by him, thy should find out what he's passionate about and offer him.

humans, influencing their fellows with the power of money from inception. This man is just like me, I can chase and work for money, FINE! sometimes, money has no value to me when thrown at me. That's just how we are.

people like this make me see that there is more to life than money money money.

hurry!!!