The Fields Medal awards ceremony 2006 in Madrid

Andrei Okounkov(Russia),Grigori Perelman(Russia),Terence Tao(Australia),and Wendelin Werner(France) were awarded the Fields Medal for their contributions to mathematics.But Perelman,who proved the ''Poincaré conjecture'',refused his medal.

[@hexa3389]

"Difficult choice"
*Has Terence Tao and Grigori Perelman in the same year*

[@angela1894]

Cool. I don't know why the Fields Medal doesn't get as much publicity as the Nobel Prize.

[@walkwithmeEU]

It is becoming more and more famous though

[@atiquaeram10th94]

I have this que too.

[@holliswilliams8426]

It's hard to explain the work a pure mathematician does in a simple way to the general public.

[@TheSupertoneify]

"I regret Dr. Perelman has declined to accept the medal" . Some people clapping in the background. The guy is pissed lol

[@holliswilliams8426]

rofl his face when people clapped

[@kousoulides]

stop clapping so close to the mic genius..

[@mansonjoselito]

What matters is to be better than others, Perelman is the best and he and everyone knew it, that's what matters, no matter how he is but what he is. The best words one can hear are We Need you.

[@rickysterling9194]

Grigori has morals and intellect.He rejected the prize because he thought that his prize must be shared with Richard who also did work on Poincare conjecture which inspired and helped him.

[@guitarguy4372]

He also let his mother die in poverty by not accepting the millennium award worth a million dollars. 👍🤝

[@tauceti8341]

@@guitarguy4372 Mother is an irrelevent factor in the minds of genius.
She should have been blessed in knowing,
rather than desperate.
Why should I be responsible for a disgusting human being,
No Discipline, no skill, but birthing me from her taint without my consent,
The old are weak and deserve to die,
This virus is clear example,
of why old ways should be eradicated,
for the new upcoming minds.
Where the fuck was my consent of not to been born.

[@tallguy4876]

@@tauceti8341 harsh but true

[@holliswilliams8426]

Having studied the Ricci flow a bit, I now agree with Perelman's decision and respect his integrity. Hamilton's contribution was immense and he should have been awarded as well.

[@topdog5252]

@@holliswilliams8426 really? Hmm.

[@hexa3389]

Two of the legends of math hot their fields medals that day

[@ishida4ikka]

What matters is not the prize, but what he did and what he is.

[@sanyambhutani5237]

Never clapping near a microphone again

[@bhavya5508]

Yay thats what I thought!

[@perfectoid8376]

A lot of memories came to mind.

[@michaelw2711]

perelman is on another level...

[@pixelfn667]

?????

[@youtubepooppismo5284]

@@pixelfn667 what exactly do you not understand

[@nikeljones34]

Let the guy speak -.-

[@stevanpavic]

dr.Grigori Perelman dislike this. lol

[@Caporacolo]

Enrico Arbarello, one of the committee, is going to be my new professor in Rome, at the course of Mathematics at La Sapienza, in a few days :)

[@ChessNetwork]

Agreed

[@pietropiras9430]

what are u doing here Jerry?

[@socrates4446]

Is jerry a math person?

[@yoichihiruma4291]

I'm suprise to see you here Jerry 😂

[@dgaagjezeken]

how many times have you seen this video, Perelman?

[@saalimkhan4133]

lol

[@user-lj8mr6fk6s]

J. Ken not even once, I guess

[@woodchiu]

@nelsyeung so you mean that any who accept medals or money is not a true mathematician? or even not a true scientist? Face it. Perelman is a great mathematician indeed, but it doesn't mean that refusing medal and money is one of the criteria for being a mathematician.

[@Caporacolo]

@tattoconga sorry for this late answer, but i just saw the message :/
Anyway, depends on what you want to graduate. There are many good institutes and universities in Italy. The only problem maybe the money cuts government made to public universities and schools, but the professors are very very qualified and almost everybody of them got years of studies abroad (USA, Europe, Asia etc.) from the most eminent colleges and universities around the world.

[@OBOGAN]

Perelman is really funny ^^ ,

[@alstar999]

@AntiTrendsetter no, because Perelman is good at what he does...

[@danielnguyen2055]

Anyone comes here from MIT online course ^^

[@alienkishorekumar]

@AntiTrendsetter that's dope..lol!

[@sralvez5150]

is that Sheldon presenting the medal? OMG

[@govindanchandran5326]

I should be given a Fields Medal for my thorough hard work, smartness and Brilliance in past, present and future of Pure and Applied Mathematics teaching, research and Mathematics software development like Sagemath, Mathlab, Mathematica, R language and Python Math libraries like Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Mathplotlib Etc.

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

no dislike bar. cool

[@bijakmatematikbersamaluqma3010]

terence tao is the best

[@HotPepperLala]

For such an intellectual gathering, I am starting to doubt the intellect of the audience, clapping because he can't win the medal??

[@termoso]

i hate any kind of congress. perelman should be sick of it

[@tallguy4876]

Yeah atleast in science and mathematics we should not do this

[@thomasyunglam2954]

03:21
:)

[@user-lj8mr6fk6s]

I don't like to seem cheaply bragging by saying that, but Tao is nothing in DEEP math

[@sushobhandas7752]

What?

[@Caporacolo]

Enrico Arbarello, one of the committee, is going to be my new professore in Rome, at the course of Mathematics at La Sapienza, in a few days :)