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Russian maths genius may turn down $1m prize [solved the Poincaré conjecture]
The Telegraph ^ | 3/27/2010 | Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Olga Krepysheva in St. Petersburg

Posted on 03/28/2010 1:40:12 AM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: TopQuark

This is very admirable.


61 posted on 03/28/2010 8:04:32 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: bruinbirdman

He doesn’t need it. He’s doing alright with the GEICO commercials.


62 posted on 03/28/2010 8:06:52 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: MestaMachine; JewishRighter

Chag Sameach


63 posted on 03/28/2010 8:14:21 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: MestaMachine

What exactly is this one million dollar prize? Whoever is behind this prize should just say, “We have awarded you this prize” and set up a $1,000,000 trust fund for this poor fellow. The trust fund can then dole out a modest amount monthly to this mathematician. Getting $500 a month is what Grigory Feldman can accept and understand. $1,000,000 overloads his autistic circuits.


64 posted on 03/28/2010 8:59:35 PM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: TopQuark
Humans have always tended to rise to something higher.

Sure, if you believe that procreation doesn't count. Which obviously you do. If he is superior, let his genes carry on. For some reason, they aren't going to. Doesn't that strike you as odd. Did you think you 'owned' someone with that idiotic comment?
65 posted on 03/28/2010 10:18:40 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: TopQuark

Good call, dutifully taken to heart.


66 posted on 03/29/2010 1:09:42 AM PDT by Ayn And Milton
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To: lmr
"Did you think you 'owned' someone with that idiotic comment? "

I don't know what "ownership" is when one talks about thinking. Sorry, I haven't learned this gutter language: you and I must've attended different schools. Whatever the reason, my words must've struck a nerve.

TQ: "Humans have always tended to rise to something higher."

lmr: "Sure, if you believe that procreation doesn't count."

Striving to move from achievement A to achievement B does NOT imply that A does not count. You are arguing here against something I did not say.

Will "logic" like yours, you should refrain from judging something as idiotic: doing so only underscored your shortcomings and makes them less forgivable.

"If he is superior, let his genes carry on. "

This comment indicates that you don't even know what spirituality is. Nor do you know anything about biology: spirituality is not an inheritable quality.

Finally, whom are you kidding? Since when "getting laid" had anything to do with procreation? You are trying to convince us that your all sophomore friends chasing anything in a skirt and comparing notes on easy coeds are thinking about procreation? Men that are ready for procreation get married. And they don't speak of intimacy with their wives as "getting laid."

Some of these things you'll learn when you mature a bit. But what's truly amazing about your comments is that you fancy yourself a conservative.

Have a good lay... I mean a good day, kid.

67 posted on 03/29/2010 8:06:04 PM PDT by TopQuark
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Note: this topic is from 3/28/2010. Thanks bruinbirdman.

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68 posted on 07/25/2012 3:55:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: bruinbirdman; windcliff; stylecouncilor

I attended the 80th birthday physics lecture conference for Julian Schwinger at UCLA. Understood maybe 50%, and one of the talks might as well have been in Japanese. Met Schwinger as he was walking with an aid to his car. Shook hands with John Bell too. Very interesting. But alot of these guys were also real kooks, wearing ratty suits, socks of differing colors, etc. And several of them really smelled bad.

What is it that’s said about the fine line twixt genius and insanity?


69 posted on 07/25/2012 7:08:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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