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Grigory Perelman REJECTS Million-Dollar Prize for Poincare Conjecture!
43-year-old mathematician Grigory Perelman decided to reject a million dollar prize given to him by a U.S. institute. This was called the “Millennium Prize” by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Grigory Perelman, who lives with his mother in St. Petesburg was awarded the prize for proving of a theorem known as the Poincare conjecture.
Perelman blamed the “unjust” decisions of the “organized mathematician community” for his decision, saying American mathematician Richard Hamilton, ignored by the institute, had contributed to proving the theorem no less than Perelman himself.
Perelman said he notified the institute last week. The institute said in a statement that it would decide what to do with the money this fall
