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I think Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture and declined the Fields medal and Millennium prize money for it, then said he has retired from prof
by rincebrain 2y ago
I think Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture and declined the Fields medal and Millennium prize money for it, then said he has retired from professional mathematics to avoid the fame, might qualify as the most famous in recent memory.
- forgotpwd16 2y agoInterestingly, his seminal papers on (alongside other major contributions) solving the Poincaré conjecture weren't published in a journal but were simply uploaded on arXiv. Moreover, similar to GP's mathematician may say, Grigori quit professional mathematics not just to avoid fame but also due to disappointment over the field ethics.