The math genius rejected the prestigious awards

On the occasion of the famous Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman is 47 years old, the Science Daily website specializes in America's prestigious science, with an average of more than 2 million visits per month. the status and career of a talented individual, who is famous for the public in the five years through his 'eccentricity'.

Born June 13, 1966 in Leningrad (present Saint Petersburg) in a Jewish family, with the full birth name of Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. The father had emigrated to Israel for a long time, while mother Liuba Leibovna was a math teacher at a vocational school, who also nurtured mathematical love for her only son from an early age.

At the beginning of 5th grade, Grigori began to participate regularly in seminars at the Mathematics Center at the Leningrad Children's Palace, led by the leading expert of the natural science department, Professor Sergei Rukshin. Foundation.

By the ninth grade, Grigori moved to 239 High School, specializing in the suburbs of the city, albeit far away from the residence but met the passion for math. At 16, G. Perelman was one of six members of the Soviet Union to attend the 23rd International Math Olympiad (IMO) held in Budapest (Hungary), and won a Gold Medal with a great score. for 40/40.

After returning to his home country, G. Perelman was given special admission to the National University of Leningrad (LGU). With excellent academic performance, the new graduate G. Perelman received a full scholarship named Lenin to transfer to graduate students.

After graduating with an associate's degree in Mathematics Department of LGU, specializing in the study of the shape of objects in space, G. Perelman returned to work at the Sub-branch Leningrad of Steklov Institute of Advanced Mathematics ( LOMI, now PDMI) is famous. In 1991, G. Perelman was awarded the Leningrad Young Mathematical Society for his contributions to the field of professional research, which was the only reward in life that G. Perelman "accepted".

Next, he was invited to present his unique thesis at many of the leading universities in the United States, but rejected the invitation to stay for a long time. G. Perelman returned to his homeland and continued to work at LOMI with his passion for burning research. In the process of working here, the first "eccentric" act of the young scientist was to refuse to defend the doctoral thesis proposed by colleagues, because of G. Perelman's talents. with a stature of a doctorate.

In 1996, G. Perelman was awarded the prize of the European Mathematical Association (EMS) for young mathematicians, but he was a refusal to accept. Just a decade later, the International Math Union (IMU), based in Berlin (Germany), decided to award the Fields Medal, a noble award, which was dubbed the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics" for G. Perelman, but Perelman refused to go to Madrid (Spain) where the IMU conference was taking place to receive the award.

At this point G. Perelman's name was known to the world as a genius genius, at the conclusion of the 2007 academic journal Sience honors the title "Breakthrough of the Year " ( The discovery of the year) for G. Perelman, through miracles proved Thurston's geometric hypothesis, paving the way for the discovery of the Poincare Hypothesis. This is the first time in more than a century of its existence, the new magazine Sience has awarded this title to the field of mathematics.

Rare photos of Perelman "eccentric" wandering on public transport.

The Poincare hypothesis is also known in another way as the cosmic formulas of the universe , raised by the veteran French mathematician Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) in 1904, one of the mathematical propositions. The most hammer for a century has not been solved.

By early 2010, the Clay Institute of Mathematics (CMI), a famous non-profit organization based in Cambridge City (Massachusetts, USA), agreed to award the Millennium Prize to Russian mathematician G. Perelman, for proving the Poincar Hypothesis with a reward of $ 1 million. But like the previous two international awards, this time he still insisted, even though the representative of the Clay Institute offered to personally present the prize to G. Perelman.

Explaining the decline of Clay Institute's prize for millennia, the "weirdo" spoke through the door of a modest apartment where he was living with his elderly mother in Kupchino district, when the local press poured to interview before the unexpected decision of an unusual person: "I have everything I want, so I don't care about money or fame!".

And colleagues at PDMI said G. Perelman had quietly left hospital, moved to "hide" and research at home."He sometimes seems a bit . crazy, but that is a common phenomenon among talented scientists," said PDMI Deputy Director Sergei Novikov, who worked for a long time alongside G. Perelman.

Reportedly, The Daily Telegraph daily in the UK in 2007 ranked the mathematician Grigori Perelman 9th in the list of "100 contemporary geniuses alive" . The list also includes two other Russians, the world chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who is ranked 25th, and the inventor of Mikhail Kalashnikov AK-47 automatic submachine gun ranked 83.