If I had accepted the prize, I would have become a tool of the establishment.
Solved Poincare conjecture, refused Fields Medal
If I had accepted the prize, I would have become a tool of the establishment.
Solved Poincare conjecture, refused Fields Medal
Reported by a Russian journalist, attributed to him.
2010
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