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Atrium > Mathematics, Physics & Philosophy: Perelman got the Clay prize!

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2010
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    • CommentAuthorHarry Gindi
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2010

    Wait, so is he accepting it now?

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2010

    It is not clear. When he was asked 2-3 years ago about rumours on such issues, Perelman was ambivalent -- he said I was not offered the prize. In his interviews he never said he would not take it. One of our common friends said (before Perelman got and rejected Fields) that Perelman was thinking much before on rejecting the Clay if he gets it, because he would have to change his lifestyle as he would get to be a target of criminal milieu and have to change his daily paths and freedom. But who knows now...

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2010

    Others wonder too: nytimes

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    • CommentAuthorIan_Durham
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2010
    Interesting. Sounds like his original "tour" of the US burned him out. I actually hadn't heard about that trip. I had thought he'd always been a bit of a recluse but this seems to indicate the "limelight" might have changed him.
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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2010

    In that tour (several years ago) he has asnwered to any question on his proof anybody might have asked, and people who were asking were among the best geometers in US. It is strange that among some people after that who were writing their own completions of the proof there are some who claimed that Perelman did not prove the whole thing, while nobody could ask him any question, subquestion, subsubquestion or so on about the parts of the proof others did not see or understand, that he would noty be able to answer immediately. Thus he has a full proof, at least in his mind and he has shown that.

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    • CommentAuthorIan_Durham
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2010
    Well, and clearly others finally realized he was right since he won the Fields Medal and now received the award from the Clay Institute. Personally, I think it highlights how, in the name of science and mathematics, we can sometimes treat each other rather shabbily. We forget sometimes that we're all just human beings.
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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2010
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    and clearly others finally realized

    There are few influential mathematicians who really mean that he outlined the correct proof and never really completed it. It is pretty said to see that ignorance. I will not name the people as some scandals were already present...

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