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[Big Lynx]

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Perelman repeatedly said that he had retired from the mathematics community and no longer considered himself a professional mathematician. He mentioned a dispute that he had had years earlier with a collaborator over how to credit the author of a particular proof, and said that he was dismayed by the discipline's lax ethics. "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens," he said. "It is people like me who are isolated." We asked him whether he had read Cao and Zhu's paper. "It is not clear to me what new contribution did they make," he said. "Apparently, Zhu did not quite understand the argument and reworked it." As for Yau, Perelman said, "I can't say I'm outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest."

The prospect of being awarded a Fields Medal had forced him to make a complete break with his profession. "As long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice," Perelman explained. "Either to make some ugly thing"�a fuss about the math community's lack of integrity� "or, if I didn't do this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and say nothing. That is why I had to quit." We asked Perelman whether, by refusing the Fields and withdrawing from his profession, he was eliminating any possibility of influencing the discipline. "I am not a politician!" he replied, angrily. Perelman would not say whether his objection to awards extended to the Clay Institute's million-dollar prize. "I'm not going to decide whether to accept the prize until it is offered," he said.



Текст в ссылке представляет собой интервью на английском, взятое у Перельмана в связи с тем, что он решил математическую проблему, которую в течение ста лет не мог решить никто, и после этого отказался от всех почестей и наград. Суть интервью, вкратце, такова.



Он говорит, что ему невмоготу больше иметь дело с западным математическим сообществом, где процветают или, как минимум, допускаются ложь и прочие бессовестные поступки. Сейчас, когда он стал известен, он должен либо выступить против этого, либо стать "любимцем", то есть делать вид, что всё идет прекрасно и подпевать коррумпированной элите. Он выбрал первое. (с)

Comments

Мудак. Ломается как старшекласница. На лям баксов можно было сделатьмного добра...

[Big Lynx]

88ad Возможно опасается, что дадут лям, а спросят два.

кто ж со старогоеврея спросит...

[Алекс К]

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