What would you do if you were awarded a prize of 1 million dollars? Thank the academy, grab the money, and buy a yacht? That sounds like a good plan for most people, but not Grigori Perelman, a math genius, who was offended by his prize and rejected it. Grigori Perelman was born in 1955 in Saint Petersburg, which was called Leningrad in the time of the Soviet Union. When he was 16, he entered the School of Mathematics and Mechanics at Leningrad State University. By 1990, Perelman had completed his Ph.D. After a few articles that were a success in both the Soviet and international scientific world, Perelman was invited to the US. There, he first met famous mathematician Richard Hamilton. Interestingly, later, when Perelman was asked why he rejected his million-dollar award, he mentioned Hamilton… TIMESTAMPS:
Grigori's childhood 0:20
Eccentric young man 1:58
Why he refused to write a resumé 2:54
Solving the Poincaré conjecture 3:38
Why he quitted his job 6:25
… and rejected his million-dollar award 8:11
What is his life like now? 8:59 #maths #genius #brightside Preview photo credit: Grigori Perelman at Berkeley: By George Bergman – Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach (MFO)/Wikimedia, GFDL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11511619 Animation is created by Bright Side. SUMMARY:
– In 1982, as one of the best students in the country, Perelman went to Budapest as a member of the Soviet national team to take part in the International Mathematical Olympiad. And there, he won the golden medal for scoring the maximum possible number of points! – People were noticing how … eccentric he was. He wasn’t exactly struggling financially because he made good money during his fellowship. Yet, all he ate was traditional Russian brown bread and cheese.
– In 1993, he was offered another great position; he became a two-year Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
– During his time in California, Perelman was asked to write a resumé to apply to different scientific positions worldwide. He was offended by that suggestion, saying that people would learn enough from his works without any resumés.
– In his home town, he went back to his old job at the Steklov Institute, a research position that paid him less than a hundred dollars per month.
– He gave lectures at six leading American universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, and hundreds of people attended them. He didn’t do it for attention or fame, but in the name of science. – In 2006, the scientific world officially acknowledged that the problem had been solved. The Science journal named it the scientific “Breakthrough of the Year”, and he was announced the winner of the Fields Medal, aka the mathematical Oscar and Nobel Prize combined. – Probably the fear of being an animal at the zoo made Perelman quit his job at the Steklov Institute in 2006, and hide from the rest of the world altogether. – When spotted outside, he’s always seen in the same dingy coat and trousers, with super long nails and a beard. – Perelman stated that his contribution to the solution wasn’t any greater than Richard Hamilton’s, and so it would be dishonest for him to accept the prize as his own.
– At some point, Perelman decided to break all ties with math. He said that while there are mathematicians who are honest people, they are conformists, willing to tolerate those who are dishonest.
– For a few years, Perelman survived on his mom’s old age pension, but in 2018, he finally started accepting proposals to give Math lectures in Europe from time to time. Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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