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> There's a great half mad Russian mathematician who didn't take much part in society Grigori Perelman, my personal hero: > A reporter who had called him was
by klabb3 4y ago
> There's a great half mad Russian mathematician who didn't take much part in society
Grigori Perelman, my personal hero:
> A reporter who had called him was told: "You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
- DeathArrow 4y agoI didn't want to nominate him. People here can be nasty. Anyway, guy is a lunatic from a legal or social perspective and a genius otherwise. Why can't people and the media respect his privacy? He doesn't have a signed contract with society to produce math.