Grigori Perelman

I don't want to be a mascot for the mathematical community. I'm not a hero. I'm just a mathematician.

I have all I want.

I refuse. You understand, I have given up.

I don't think anything I say can be of the slightest interest to the general public.

There are no other secrets, I understand how to control the Universe. Why should I run for a million, tell me?

It is not me who isolated myself, it is the world that isolated itself from me.

I consider myself a professional mathematician. But I do not want to become a member of the mathematical community. I do not consider their decisions fair. I consider their decisions immoral.

I do not want money or fame. I do not want to be on display like an animal in a zoo. I am not a hero of mathematics. I am not even that successful. That is why I do not want to give any interviews.

If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed.

I just want to be left alone.

I don't see anything extraordinary in my work.

I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be a hero. I'm not a mathematics genius.

I don't need anything.

I have my own thoughts, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to do.

I refuse the prize. I don't want it. I am not interested in money or fame.

I don't want to make any public statements.

I am not a public person.

I have everything I need. I am a free man.

If I had accepted the prize, I would have become a tool of the establishment.

I don't want to be part of the international mathematical community, which has not been fair to me.