Will Reclusive Mathematician Accept $1 Million Prize?

Photo: Grigory Perelman.

From New Scientist:

A million-dollar prize for solving one of toughest problems in mathematics has been awarded to a Russian mathematician, but the real puzzle is whether he'll accept it.

The reclusive Grigoriy Perelman has been recognised for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture, one of seven Millennium prize problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) in 2000 as the most important unsolved problems in mathematics.

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