Sunday, May 1, 2011

Heartburn And Bloating

Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman Jewish.

The Russian mathematician who refused a prize of one million dollars

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Grigori Perelman, who refused the Fields medal, broke his silence in an interview reproduced in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda .
Zabrovski

The Russian Alexander, journalist and film producer, was the first, according to the newspaper, interviewing in depth the mythical Perelman who leads an isolated life, with his mother in a modest apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. "He said he is not speaking to Russian journalists because it lacks the respect," said Zabrovski, who said, "for example, the press calls me 'Grisha' (short for Grigori) and that familiarity bother me," Efe reported.

"I gave the impression of a person responsible, healthy, appropriate and normal," he said the reporter.

Addressing the issue of adolescence, the scientist told of his first appearance in a school of mathematics Olympiad in Budapest, where he represented the Soviet Union and won a medal gold. "When we were preparing for the Olympics ejercitábamos us with problems whose solutions require the ability to think abstractly," recalls Perelman.

also pointed out that never faced a math problem that could not be resolved, but admitted that perhaps the most difficult in his youth was calculate the speed with which Jesus would have walked on the water surface to avoid sinking . The mathematician did not say how she solved the mystery of the Bible, but said the fact that the legend lives on to say that he was not mistaken in their calculations.

shared Perelman that early in his career had two paths to choose: music and math. At the end opted for the latter, which helped him to approach the understanding of the ways of the universe and gain worldwide fame and he bore the fruits of which strongly rejects.

During the interview, the mathematician, famous for his asceticism, he stressed that one can not be afraid of any crisis if you have formulas to calculate everything. He maintained that he learned to "calculate the gaps" and still know the mechanisms of "complete social and economic gaps." "The gaps are everywhere. The computing power gives us great potential. I know how to handle the Universe. Now tell me why would you run for a million? "summed Perelman.

The mathematician was declared the winner of the Millennium Prize for solving the Poincare Conjecture, one of the seven millennium problems. The Russian genius, who left in 2005 his career as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics Steklov, solved the problem and, after refusing to explain in journals such as Nature , presented an online demonstration in 2002 for access worldwide.

With this demonstration and won the 2006 Fields Medal , popularly regarded Nobel Prize of mathematics, but never came to pick her up in Madrid and also rejected the cash prize.

After finding no substantial error in the proof of Perelman, the international scientific community concluded that the Russian mathematician who devoted eight years of his life to solving this problem had unraveled the riddle set by Frenchman Henri Poincare in 1904 .

Several NGOs addressed Perelman to accept the million dollars and donate to help the most disadvantaged sectors of Russian society, but the scientist was silent.

Source: libertaddigital.com

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