Stalker was intrigued by the story of the maths genius in Russia who turned down a $1million prize for solving some of the most intractable problems in modern mathematics.
Reclusive Russian genius, Grigory Perelman, barricaded himself in his Moscow apartment after having solved the Poincaré conjecture – which involves the deep structures of three dimensional shapes.
A prize from the Clay Institute of Mathematics in Cambridge Massachusetts of $1million has been spurned.
The only answer so far from the recluse to a journalist who managed to get through to him on his mobile phone was: “You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”
Nice to know that possibly the cleverest human on the planet at the moment is a mycophile and happy to be chasing fungi instead of greenbacks.
