Although I don't agree with all of what he wrote in "Manifolds of positive Ricci curvature with almost maximal volume", and I have my own hypothesis involving the deep structure of three-dimensional objects, I do respect his contributions to geometric analysis and topology.He proved the Poincare Conjecture, an open problem for over a century. He says he turned down the Millennium Prize because he thought another mathematician should have shared the $1M with him. A man of crippling ethics, a man of astounding mathematical talents.
Grigori Perelman - Wikipedia
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He proved the Poincare Conjecture, an open problem for over a century. He says he turned down the Millennium Prize because he thought another mathematician should have shared the $1M with him. A man of crippling ethics, a man of astounding mathematical talents.
Grigori Perelman - Wikipedia
I think it was his chess teammate, Alexander Khalifman, who said, "Yasnyye glaza, polnyye serdtsa, ne mogu proigrat'"
