man solves one of world's greatest mathematical puzzles and turns down 1 million

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by MohdSalleh, Mar 22, 2010.

  1. Bob111

    Bob111

    it is.. few years ago..
    actual picture-

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    #11     Mar 22, 2010
  2. Interesting. Smart yes, wise no. Living like a bum and turning down $1 million dollar prize.
     
    #12     Mar 22, 2010
  3. Bob111

    Bob111

    example of good education in wrong hands-

    http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2009/11/9-million-world-wide-bank-robbery.html
     
    #13     Mar 22, 2010
  4. That's awesome!! Thanks for the article
    I think Grisha was a visiting professor at several US Universities.
     
    #14     Mar 22, 2010
  5. nkhoi

    nkhoi

    wait until they built a high freq trading machine.
     
    #15     Mar 22, 2010
  6. 6 more to go ,maybe one of the geniuses on ET will do it

    The Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. As of March 2010, six of the problems remain unsolved. A correct solution to any of the problems results in a US$1,000,000 prize (sometimes called a Millennium Prize) being awarded by the institute. Only the Poincaré conjecture has been solved, by Grigori Perelman.

    # 1 P versus NP
    # 2 The Hodge conjecture
    # 3 The Poincaré conjecture (proven)
    # 4 The Riemann hypothesis
    # 5 Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
    # 6 Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
    # 7 The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
     
    #16     Mar 22, 2010
  7. they only decided to award him the money recently

    On 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to receive the first Clay Millennium Prize Problems award[3] of US $1,000,000, for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture.
     
    #17     Mar 22, 2010
  8. :p Thanks for that. Good one!

     
    #18     Mar 22, 2010
  9. nkhoi

    nkhoi

    but he will say your math is so painfully wrong, get outta here!
     
    #19     Mar 22, 2010

  10. To refuse the prize or give it to charity would be anyone's free will and nothing to do with capitalism or socialism and not hard to understand.

    Doubtful the Soviet education had anything to do with his innate savant ability to solve the problem.

    A savant with mental illness totally obsessed with only his world and not a care for anyone.



    ''We are trying to get rid of cockroaches in our block, but they hide in his flat.'

    "prefers to live as a recluse in his grim cockroach-infested flat

    "He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress
     
    #20     Mar 22, 2010