The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture.Math is the only academic subject who people get credited for what they actually do, and not for self-promotion. Perelman has dropped out, and done nothing to promote his work. He just posted it, and lectured on it.
Poincare discovered and published relativity theory before Einstein, and most physicists refuse to credit him to this day.
Update: Pravda claims that Perelman does not want the money. He is not talking, so nobody really knows.
Update: As of July 2, 2010, Perelman has refused the prize.
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