Ο πιο έξυπνος άνθρωπος του κόσμου, ειναι ά(ν)εργος, ζει σε ένα δωμάτιο με ενα τραπέζι, μία καρέκλα, ένα παλιό κρεββάτι, και αρνήθηκε $1.000.000 βραβείο για την επίλυση ενός απο τα άλυτα μέχρι πρόσφατα τοπολογικά προβλήματα των μαθηματικών.The eccentric recluse stunned the maths world when he solved a century-old puzzle known as the Poincare Conjecture. Grigory "Grisha" Perelman's predicament stems from an acrimonious split with a top Russian mathematical institute in 2003.
When the Steklov Institute in St Petersburg failed to re-elect him as a member, Dr Perelman, 40, was made to feel an "absolutely ungifted and untalented person", said a friend. He suffered a crisis of confidence and cut himself off.
Other friends say he cannot afford to travel to this week's International Mathematics Union in Madrid, where his peers want him to receive the maths equivalent of the Nobel prize, and that he is too modest to ask anyone to underwrite his trip.
Interviewed in St Petersburg last week, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention and was not interested in his windfall. "I do not think anything that I say can be of the slightest public interest," he said...
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