Standing by your guns (and turning down $1 million bucks)
This fellow just turned down $1,000,000 dollars, on principle, for a math prize. That is real freedom. That is a 4th of July story for you right there. (Yes, it is the wrong country, but my point stands.) 
“Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, has decided to decline the cash.
Perelman’s decision was announced Thursday by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which had awarded Perelman its Millennium Prize.
The award honors his solving of the Poincare (pwan-kah-RAY) conjecture, which deals with shapes that exist in four or more dimensions.”
Notice the zip-up-sweats under the coat.
Here is the link to the article.
