Re: Whacko Russian Declines Field Medal
- From: "Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Aug 2006 12:17:09 -0700
HeyBub wrote:
The Nobel Prize of Mathematics, awarded every four years was refused by a
Russian recluse who proved the Poincare conjecture, "topologically, a rabbit
is the same as a sphere." Not a REAL rabbit, mind you, more like a chocolate
rabbit; one with no holes. (Real rabbits have holes, several, as a matter of
fact.)
Real spheres do not carry RABBIT FLU. In the UK we have had a farmer
killed by rabbit flu contracted by picking up a rabbit on his farm.
Grigory Perelman, the winner, will evidently join up with Bobby Fisher to
form a dance team.
I doubt it. He is unemployed and lives in a Moscow flat with his
mother.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2341460
BTW, no-one has yet been able to confirm Perelman's proof but there are
no significant flaws. He has previously refused a Maths prize awarded
by the EU. He may also refuse the million bucks on offer from a
Canadian institute as a bonus prize.
Oh, and he is really polite. (Not that I know him, I picked it all up
off of news.bbc.co.uk).
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