Grigory Perelman, the Russian math whiz who solved a century-old problem, said he refused a $1 million prize because he knows “how to control the universe.”
The money was offered to Perelman by the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass. in 2010 for his accomplishment in proving the conjecture proposed by Henri Poincare in 1904 on how three-spheres are the only possible bounded three-dimensional spaces to contain no holes.
Perelman, who lives in poverty with his mother according to neighbors, said that if he knew how to control the universe, “why should [he] run for a million?” Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
Sam Seabornen 
Wait what? How do you control the Universe?
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Pffft for such a smart person he sorta sounds like a moron, take the 1 million and give it away if you must. But take the money.
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Noooooooooooo!
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dude is obviously an insane shut in, like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. Congrats to him though for solving this wicked problem.
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Crazy Russian people.
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Look at those eyebrows!
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wow i would have accepted that! cool post though, i am now following
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