Grigori Perelman — "I consider myself a professional mathematician. But I do not want to become a 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.
Grigori Perelman — Grigori Perelman Contemporary · Solved Poincare conjecture, refused Fields Medal

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Reported by journalist Masha Gessen after his refusal of the Fields Medal.

Date: 2006

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