Well, the ‘warning signs’ are definitely there, but then it doesn’t appear entirely unlikely that he simply invested so much time to build up an entirely new fi

Well, the ‘warning signs’ are definitely there, but then it doesn’t appear entirely unlikely that he simply invested so much time to build up an entirely new field that it will be impossible to explain it in a few lectures. And given that Perelmann apparently still lives with his parents and refused this fancy price, I don’t know exactly what to expect from a successful mathematician. So, yes, something is fishy, but so was the weird idea of curved spacetime.