{"id":2228,"date":"2012-10-03T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:58:24","slug":"grisha-perelman-in-playboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/03\/grisha-perelman-in-playboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Grisha Perelman in Playboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I HAD NEVER BEEN ON A STAKEOUT, but I knew how it was done. I took a book. I brought a few sandwiches. I flipped on the radio and listened to the traffic report in Russian. That kept me awake as I waited for the mathematician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brett Forest in <em>Playboy<\/em> July-August 2012 issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hilobrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/perelman.jpg\" alt=\"perelman\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perelman in August 2006 was awarded the Fields Medal for &#8220;<em>his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow<\/em>.&#8221;  He turned down the medal and prize.<\/p>\n<p>Then on 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to receive the first Clay Millennium Prize for resolution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture\" title=\"wiki\" target=\"_blank\">Poincar\u00e9 conjecture<\/a>. Again he turned this down.  <\/p>\n<p>Perelman clearly shuns publicity&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grigori Perelman is one of the greatest mathematicians of our time, a Russian genius who solved the Poincar\u00e9 Conjecture, which plagued the brightest minds for a century. At the height of his fame, he refused a million-dollar award for his work. Then he disappeared. Our writer hunts him down on the streets of St. Petersburg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Playboy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brettforrest.com\/articles\/shattered-genius\/\" title=\"genius\" target=\"_blank\">Shattered Genius<\/a> by Brett Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I HAD NEVER BEEN ON A STAKEOUT, but I knew how it was done. I took a book. I brought a few sandwiches. I flipped on the radio and listened to the traffic report in Russian. That kept me awake as I waited for the mathematician. Brett Forest in Playboy July-August 2012 issue. Perelman in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/03\/grisha-perelman-in-playboy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grisha Perelman in Playboy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}