Pause to Wonder

Two interesting things in this story.

The first, is that modern man is incapable of wrapping his mind around the fact that someone could say no to money and fame. The only explanation is some sort of mental disturbance. But what if he just doesn’t want to be rich or famous?

And the second interesting thing (which would have come first if my math was better) is that the above mentioned Dr Perelman appears to have solved the Poincaré Conjecture back in 2002. I’ve read a couple of interesting explanations of this problem here and here and if you speak math: here.