one Million USD Prize Refused
The below pics of Dr. Grigory Perelman refused one Million USD as a prize for solving a Mathematical Problem which is 100 years old. The Mathematical problem is Poincaré conjecture , proposed by French mathematician Henri Poincaré in 1904, was the most famous open problem in topology . Loosely speaking, the conjecture surmises that if a closed three-dimensional manifold is sufficiently like a sphere in that each loop in the manifold can be tightened to a point, then it is really just a three-dimensional sphere. The analogous result has been known to be true in higher dimensions for some time, but the case of three-manifolds had turned out to be the hardest of them all. Roughly speaking, this is because in topologically manipulating a three-manifold, there are too few dimensions to move "problematic regions" out of the way without interfering with something else. on BBC refusing the prize is h3r3 : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5274040.stm QUOTE from wikipedia:...