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By Ranjan Bhaduri
New York, July 2, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Mathematics which has long been the trouble factor for students all over the world has been an object of delight for Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman. The mathematician rose to fame after solving one of the most difficult open problems in the world; Poincare conjecture. After being away from public life for a long time, the mathematician on Thursday declared how he rejected $1 million prize offering from Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge.

The President of Clay Mathematics Institute James Carlson told the media that he had spoken in person to Grigory Perelman who he said was “firm” in his decision for not accepting the money as he considers the entire mathematician community and their methods to be “unjust”. Poincare Conjecture happens to be a problem that was named after the great French polymath Henri Poincare who has offered an element of bafflement for the mathematicians all over the world for over decades. The problem is based on the theory that any 3-d space without a hole is essentially a sphere. It was way back in the year of 2003, when Dr. Perelman posted on the Internet a series of solutions and claimed that he had successfully solved the problem. Besides he also claimed that he has also solved a much tougher problem by Cornell mathematician William Thurston. When no one in United States paid any heed to his claim, he quietly returned back to his native land and it was all left over to the mathematicians of the world to figure out whether he actually did it.

In 2006, as the discoveries in Mathematics became prominent in numerous publications, the mathematicians were left with no argument but to accept that the professor had indeed solved the problem. The University is yet to decide how they will be spending the $1 million.