A while ago I read through a book called "The Millennium Problems[1]. According to the author, its unlikely that anyone driven by the money would be the ones s

A while ago I read through a book called "The Millennium Problems[1]. According to the author, its unlikely that anyone driven by the money would be the ones solving the problem. If you really want money, and you are good enough to solve these problems, there are much easier ways to make a million. Of course, that doesn't mean that whoever solves P vs NP wouldn't take the million, but looking at it this way, Perelman's decision doesn't surprise me too much. [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Ofw6ru8cHOUC&dq=the+millenium+problems&source=bn&hl=en&ei=X-KpS9rHJ4PCrAfqrfmdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6wEwBA http://books.google.com/books?id=Ofw6ru8cHOUC&dq=the+mil... P.S. I wouldn't recommend this book. It attempts to explain the problems but I didn't feel that it did a good job. Reading the P vs NP section (the only problem on the list I understand) I was depressed at how poorly it described the problem.