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Why experimentalists hate theorists.
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Why the hell am I paying you morons to use a f&#$*% brute force algorithm?! That blasted Russian Perelman can solve the Poincare conjecture. Why can't you dimwits solve something as simple as finding the best route?"
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Perelman quit the world of mathematics in disgust four years ago. His decision to spurn the Fields Medal may have been driven by a sense that his fellow mathematicians were not worthy to award it.
There's an interesting article in the Times today about Grisha Perelman and the Poincare conjecture:
A comprehensive article at The New Yorker on Perelman, Poincaré conjecture and the politics of math. Perelman, as you might have read, refused the Fields medal - the nobel prize like award for math. From the article,
The August 28 issue of The New Yorker features this magisterial article about the Poincare conjecture.