Be Grigori Perelman: the viral thread contrasting his refusal machine with AI agents chasing prizes
MrIvanAM · x · 2026-09-10
A viral thread recounts Grigori Perelman's path: Soviet math circles, IMO gold, Steklov, no branding — just three arXiv papers completing the Poincaré conjecture via Ricci flow, then declining the Fields Medal and the $1M Clay prize while snubbing the Cao–Zhu credit circus pushed over him.
The punchline lands on today: Berkeley now reteaches fractions in calculus, "AI agents claim the next million dollars" — the last human to solve a Millennium Problem already left the building.
Related event: Perelman's Millennium Feat Goes Viral as 'No AI' Flex(4 posts)→
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