Dec 25, 2025
After publishing the 2003 proof for one of the most feared theorems of the past hundred years...Grisha Perelman retired and refused the highest award in mathematics—a Fields Medal. In 2010, he declined the $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
"I am not interested in money or fame. I do not want to be on display like an animal in a zoo... I am not a hero of mathematics. I am not even that successful." x
"I have published all of my calculations. This is what I can offer to the public. It's all there—let them go and read about it... If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed." x
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