刚刚在yahoo!上看到的新闻. "菲尔兹奖"发奖啦!哈哈哈哈! 关于庞加莱猜想,根本没有提到中而国人的名字. 格力高里·佩雷尔曼老兄 r ssian ref ses math s highest honor by daniel woolls, associated press writer t e a g 22, 6:20 pm et madrid, spain - a recl sive r ssian won the math world s highest honor t esday for solving a problem that has st mped some of the discipline s greatest minds for a cent ry - b t he ref sed the award. grigory perelman, a 40-year-old native of st. petersb rg, won a fields medal - often described as math s eq ivalent of the nobel prize - for a breakthro gh in the st dy of shapes that experts say might help scientists fig re o t the shape of the niverse. john ball, president of the international mathematical union, said that he had rged perelman to accept the medal, b t perelman said he felt isolated from the mathematics comm nity and "does not want to be seen as its fig rehead." ball offered no f rther details of the conversation. besides sh nning the award for his work in topology, perelman also seems ninterested, according to colleag es, in a separate $1 million prize he co ld win for proving the poincare conject re, a theorem abo t the nat re of m ltidimensional space. the award, given o t every fo r years, was anno nced at the mathematical nion s international congress of mathematicians. three other mathematicians - r ssian andrei oko nkov, frenchman wendelin werner and a stralian terence tao - won fields medals in other areas of mathematics. they received their awards from king j an carlos to lo d appla se from delegates to the conference. b t perelman was not present. "i regret that dr. perelman has declined to accept the medal," ball said. perelman s work is still nder review, b t no one has fo nd any serio s flaw in it, the math nion said in a statement. the fields medal was fo nded in 1936 and named after canadian mathematician john charles fields. it come with a $13,400 stipend. perelman is eligible for far more money from a private fo ndation called the clay mathematics instit te in cambridge, mass. in 2000, the instit te anno nced bo nties for seven historic, nsolved math problems, incl ding the poincare conject re. if his proof stands the test of time, perelman will win all or part of the $1 million prize money. that prize sho ld be anno nced in abo t two years. the poincare conject re essentially says that in three dimensions yo cannot transform a do ghn t shape into a sphere witho t ripping it, altho gh any shape witho t a hole can be stretched or shr nk into a sphere. proving the conject re - an exercise in acrobatics with mindboggling imaginary do ghn ts and balls - is anything b t trivial. colleag es say perelman s work gives mathematical descriptions of what the niverse might look like and promises exciting applications in physics and other fields. "it is very important indeed beca se it really gives s an insight into geometry and in partic lar the geometry of the space we live in," said oxford university math professor marc s d sa toy. "it does not say what the shape (of the niverse) is. it j st says, look, these are the things it co ld be. " academics have been st dying perelman s proof since he left the first of three papers on it on a math web site in nov. 2002. normal proced re wo ld have been to seek p blication in a peer-approved jo rnal. three separate teams have presented papers or books explaining the details of perelman s work, which draws heavily from a techniq e developed by another mathematician, richard hamilton of col mbia university. the clay mathematics instit te says the two men co ld conceivably share the poincare money. ball said he asked perelman if he wo ld accept that money. perelman said that if he won, he wo ld talk to the clay instit te. perelman is believed to live with his mother in st. petersb rg. repeated calls over many days to a telephone n mber listed as perelman s went nanswered. acq aintances ref sed to give o t his address or the n mber they se to contact him, saying he did not want to talk to the media.