Grigory Perelman. We need more people like him.
With an increasing number of douchebags in the world, one is tempted to lose faith in humanity.
But one of the reasons leading to that sort of negative world view is the fact that people with good character are often not making any noise, while the douchebags are all over the news.
Sometimes however, the good, silent people are talked about too. One example is Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, who recently rejected a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for proving the famous Poincaré conjecture (which hypothesizes that any three-dimensional space without holes is essentially a sphere).
He rejected the prize because he thinks U.S. maths scholar Richard Hamilton contributed equally to the proof, deserving just as much credit as he does.
In 2006, Dr. Perelman also rejected the Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the world of maths) and the cash prize for his contributions to geometry.
It’s refreshing to see that there are still people around us who don’t live for fame or wealth, and who value their ethics more than they value their possessions.
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