"A reclusive Russian Jewish mathematician turned down a $1 million prize for solving a seemingly unsolvable math problem.
Grigory 'Grisha' Perelman told the Russian Interfax news agency on July 1 that he had turned down the prize for solving the Poincare conjecture from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass. The problem hypothesizes that any three-dimensional space without holes is a sphere.
Perelman reportedly said that he disagreed with the organized mathematics community and believed that an American mathematician had contributed to solving the problem."
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