Russian Spurns Most Coveted Maths Award
In a snub to the international maths community, a winner of the discipline's most coveted prize yesterday refused the award.
The reclusive Grigory "Grisha" Perelman turned down a Fields medal, considered by many to be the Nobel prize of maths. In 2002 the Russian claimed to have solved the Poincaré conjecture, a problem which has stumped the best minds for a century. The other three Fields medals were awarded to Andrei Okounkov at Princeton University, Terence Tao at the University of California, and Wendelin Werner at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.
The reclusive Grigory "Grisha" Perelman turned down a Fields medal, considered by many to be the Nobel prize of maths. In 2002 the Russian claimed to have solved the Poincaré conjecture, a problem which has stumped the best minds for a century. The other three Fields medals were awarded to Andrei Okounkov at Princeton University, Terence Tao at the University of California, and Wendelin Werner at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.
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