A Russian mathmetician, Grigory Perelman 43, living in his mothers tiny cockroach infested apartment has won the Clay Millenium Prize in mathematics for solving the “Poincare Conjecture”. The Poincare Conjecture is one of the world’s most complex mathematical problems and has made scientists everywhere limp in bed from its massive mind bending powers. Not only has Dr. Perelman solved the elusive problem, but he has also given a Million dollar middle finger to the world saying that he “has all he wants” (yelled through a closed door). Declining the prize saying ”I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo. I’m not a hero of mathematics. I’m not even that successful; that is why I don’t want to have everybody looking at me.” A total recluse, he has been urged by a local children’s charity in St. Petersburg to accept it and donate it. Instead, I recommend to accept the $1 million dollars and construct a large shiny solid aluminum statue of his bearded self. If that doesn’t do it, he could always invest in 1 million mechanical pencils and continue fighting the good fight on the lonely math front.
Hey smartass try it yourself:
Consider a compact 3-dimensional manifold V without boundary. Is it possible that the fundamental group of V could be trivial, even though V is not homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere?
source via: BBC
