Turning down a Million Dollars

Reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman is all set to reject a million dollar prize.

How stupid would you have to be to turn down a million dollars that are yours by right for work you have already done? Not very, in fact you might well have to be one of the smartest people in an entire century, if not the smartest. Grigory Perelman, the reclusive Russian mathematician who has already turned down a Fields Medal, a far tougher achievement than a Nobel prize, is all set to reject the million dollar prize that had been set aside by the Clay Institute of Mathematics for a solution to the century-old three-dimensional Poincare conjecture, which seeks to categorise shapes in space.

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Hartosh Singh Bal

Hartosh Singh Bal turned from the difficulty of doing mathematics to the ease of writing on politics. Unlike mathematics all this requires is being less wrong than most others who dwell on the subject.