Mathematician Who Solved Major Math Mystery Rejects Awards and $1M Prize
But some, like Grigori Perelman, prefer to avoid the fame that comes with significant breakthroughs. Grigori Perelman was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). The conjectures Perelman tackled had long been open problems in mathematics. Photo: George Bergman viaWikimedia Commons(CC BY-SA 4.0) This is the level of justification that mathematicians require before accepting a new piece of mathematical knowledge as fact. In 1994, Perelman proved thesoul conjecture....