“You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”

Dr. Grigori Perelman (Nicknamed Mathsputin.) represents all that is good about going against the grain. If he wanted to, we would totally make him an honorary member of ANTISTEEZ, because this man is, literally, ANTI the STEEZ.
Not only is this mathematician from St. Petersburg, Russia a certified GENIUS, but he also had the chutzpah to tell the world to go suck it when they tried to make him a celebrity overnight. (Yes, that was a Twista reference. I’m so hip-hop!)

Dr. Grigory Perelman: Mathematician and mushroom eater.

Dr. Perelman solved/prooved Thurston’s Geometrization Conjecture, prooving the Poincare Conjecture, which just so happens to be the HARDEST MATH PROBLEM OF ALL TIME…well since 1904, actually. (Take that, all you people struggling through college algebra! lol) He solved the math problem in 2002 and it took the math world almost eight years to prove that he was right. (Don’t judge. Think about how long it takes you to calculate the tip at a restaurant.)

So, yeah, he did some serious adding and subtracting and x-y=pie’ing and they tried to award him $ONE MILLION DOLLARS$ through the Clay Millennium Prize Problems Award and dude flat out told them, “NO.”

Well, actually, when contacted about the prize, his exact statement was,

“You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”

(Excuse me while I LO-fucking-L for a second. And are any of you wondering just what kind of mushrooms this guy is nom-nom-nom’ing on?)

But wait! There’s more.

DUDE IS A RECLUSE AND LIVING IN SQUALOR!

According to his neighbors, he lives in a ramshackle house with only, “…a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress which was left by previous owners—alcoholics who sold the flat to him.”

Neighbors claim he doesn’t shower, cut his nails, trim his beard and he wears terribly tattered clothing. And he lives with his mom and his sister.

Plus, he has quit math (Why not? He has conquered that already. It’s like when you defeated Super Mario Bros. as a kid. You were done with that shit. No need to replay. It was on to Super Mario Bros. 2. Dig?) and is currently just playing table tennis against the wall at his house.

AND DUDE TURNED DOWN ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

Right. Cause a smelly, unkempt, ping-pong nerd who lives with his mom doesn’t need the dough. He has his ethics and table tennis paddle to keep him company.

FUCK THE WHAT?

Dr. Perelman says he doesn’t think that the ethics in the math world are in compliance with his own. Basically he is calling out all the other Math Mafiosos and telling them that they are full of math shit.

In a statement, Perelman said of the field of mathematics:

“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”

Which basically boils down to, “YOU guys are full of shit yet,  people think I’M weird.”

I am pretty sure that this guy WINS for the biggest, “Go fuck yourself!” of all time to the MAN. High-five to you and your magical eyebrows, Dr. Perelman. I would totally play ping-pong with you…pending that you shower first and we could eat some of your (magic) mushrooms.

lol

-goobs