The incomprehensible soul-grigory perelman.

An incomprehensible soul, not for fame, not for profit, only for what he likes, is a legend and a myth, and he is grigory perelman.

1966 Born in Russia, Jewish. Up to now, he is still single, and everyone doesn't know where he has gone and what he is doing now. Some people say that they have seen him in Sweden, while others say that he has returned to his mother in Moscow. He lives a very simple life with a bohemian hairstyle, and sometimes he is mistaken for a tramp.

One of his neighbors recalled that every time he saw him, he wore a tarpaulin and his trousers were covered with plaster. He lived next to his house for seven years and didn't know his name. He didn't cut his hair or shave. At first, he thought he was a mental patient.

From our world view, he is an incomprehensible ordinary person, and he can be forgotten and ignored. First, there is no job; Second, no money; Third, no wife; The fourth nerd; Fifth, there is no image; Sixth, sloppy; Seventh, no friends.

He is out of step with society. He hates rules. He used to work in a graduate school because the institute required the number of papers published each year. He didn't think he was doing math, and then he resigned.

However, it is such a person who solved a math problem that the public found boring. Generally speaking, it is possible to prove that the earth is round by shrinking the rope under any circumstances. Magellan's voyage around the world proved that the earth was round and imprecise. If the north and south poles pass through a hole, Magellan's team can also return to the starting point.

Someone is interested in such a boring math problem. If you put it in China, the teacher will tell you to look at the answer. If there is no answer, just give up. Scores are very important. It's really a boring question, even if the proof process is put there, I feel bored.

However, the great god is a great god because he is completely different from you, and you can't even understand his behavior and his worldview. He did many things that humiliated the world:

I can't understand his worldview. He lives in his own world like a madman. In our society, this is not a fool. You don't want to give you money and you don't want to give you a name. What do you want? Why not get your money back, buy yourself a dress and change your house? No matter which American university or research institution you go to, isn't it the right way? However, what the world gave him was not what he wanted. Maybe one needs to be indifferent to fame and scientific spirit to achieve something in natural science. Your incomprehension is the quality that others should have to become great men.

In May, 2000, Clay Institute of Mathematics, funded by the American rich, carefully selected seven unsolved mathematical problems. Whether you are a mathematician or a tramp, anyone who solves one of these problems can take away 1 10,000 dollars. So far, only Poincare conjecture has been solved by grigory perelman. In order to obtain 1 ten thousand dollars, it is necessary to publish the proof process in authoritative mathematical journals. He ignored this rule, and finally Clay Mathematics College compromised, as long as perelman came to accept the prize, but he remained indifferent. Just pile $6,543,800+at his door on the grounds that he is not interested in money.

When he refused to accept the Fields Medal in 2006, he gave the reason that "there was no travel expenses to receive the award." John Ball, president of the League, said: He is willing to pay all the round-trip accommodation expenses, but perelman is still unmoved. The only prize that perelman won was the gold medal that 1982 won with a perfect score of 42 points in the International Olympiad of Algebra and Geometry held in Budapest.

This is just part of his refusal or reward. Yale University extended an olive branch to him, offering him a scholarship of $200,000 and solving the housing problem. For political reasons, he refused. 1995 Stanford university sent him a job invitation, but he refused it on the grounds that he could not accept the request to submit his resume. 1996, the award for outstanding young mathematicians and the generous bonus awarded only to mathematicians under the age of 32 were rejected.

This reminds me of the advertising word think different written by Jobs himself. Appreciating this advertisement again, I found that Jobs was recruiting talents for all mankind, and grigory perelman was one of them.

To crazy people.

A loner.

Rebels.

Trouble maker.

A round nail in a square hole.

People who look at things differently.

They don't like rules.

They don't respect the status quo.

You can praise them, quote them and disagree with them.

Don't believe them, praise or slander them.

The only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they changed everything.

They invented. They imagine. They will heal.

They explore. They create. They are inspiring.

They push mankind forward.

Maybe they must be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit quietly and listen to a song that has never been written?

Or stare at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for such people.

Although some people may think they are crazy, we think they are geniuses.

Because people who are crazy enough to think they can.

Someone who changed the world.