Perelman forced to take $ 1 million

Russian mathematics genius Grigory Perelman, who was awarded the highest fields award in 2006 by the Fields Medal, was recently awarded another $ 1 million prize from the US Clay Mathematics Institute for proving the Poincare conjecture. As you know, he is again in no hurry to pick up the award.

However, this time it will be more difficult for him to refuse. According to media reports, various public and charitable organizations of St. Petersburg began to exert pressure on the 43-year-old mathematician.

The Children’s Help Fund published an open letter on the Internet on March 23with an appeal to Perelman to take the award and donate it to charity. “We hope that this letter will attract your attention and will touch the hearts of a large number of people,” writes Ms. Yegorycheva S.L., chairman of the fund’s board (it’s probably difficult for Ms. Yegorycheva to fall asleep when such money disappears).

The mathematician does not give in to provocations. Previously, to a reporter who knocked on his home, he said: “I don’t need anything,” and Gregory said to the journalist who called on his cell phone: “ Don’t disturb me, I’m picking mushrooms .”