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Caz
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Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 127
(Silly) Could this be the answer to Reimann According to newsnight (dry boring uk news programme) a certain Gergori perlman, has won a million dollar prize and a field medal for solving some random hard maths hypothesis. He has however turned the prize down
see link
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=692&WT.srch=1
Do you think this could be a sign!, maybe he will now start work on other unsolvable problems and then turn down the prize money for those to.
AHA i have solved reimann but i do not desire either the million dollars or the 60 perplex city points
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:10 pm
alton
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 14
I know this is just a silly post, but if you read in the article, it clearly states he solved the Poincare Conjecture . If you look on the Clay Mathematics website, there are more than one millenium problems. We didn't get one this time, but at some point, someone will solve Riemann .
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:14 pm
Caz
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Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 127
If you read my post above i didn't say he solved the reimann hypothesis we were merely pointing out that there are obviously mathematicians out there capable of solving very complex maths problems! And then turning down the prize of a million dollars much like the prize for reimann
Which is odd but strangely admirable and we just felt other perplex city fans may like to be aware of that
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:13 am
alton
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 14
Duly noted. Shutting up .
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:40 am
mac_monkey
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Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 250
So..does anyone have his contact details...?
He'll probably be bored stiff since he solved that problem. I know of just the remedy.
"Oh no please, take the card, it's a gift featuring a difficult mathematical problem"
..."I dont want the stupid prize.."
"No really, it's not a prize.. we need your help"
*Mad Russian proceeds to eat mac_monkey
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:48 am
duckie|werk
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Perhaps the mathmetician in question is actually, the chappie that we're looking at finding for 'billion to one'?
That'd explain why there's all the sekricy...
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:23 am
UKver2.0
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Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 270
They did a bit on the fields medal (he turned that down too) last night on the Colbert Report. Man that was good stuff. Anyways, here's the guy in question . He turns down such things because (as stated in the wiki article) "he felt the prize committee was unqualified to assess his work (even positively)"
_________________Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Naomi: and then you’d try to anagram 'shovels'
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:31 am
Scott
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Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
Soooo, he's basically a jerk fFlaunting his genius before the world?
Like .. duh! Of course noone's qualified to judge! it's unproved! Therefore noone in the world at all is qualified to judge! Take the money and say thank you! Give it to orphans, or some poor math students if you fFeel fFunny about. sheesh.
##end of rant##
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:48 pm
Mindez
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Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 165
Okay, I've been wondering this for a while, but what is WITH the fF thing?
It's like... every word that begins with F you put fF instead, whyyyy?
I need to know ;-; *asplodes*
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:51 pm
GuyIncognito
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Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 295
I guess it's just his way of selfFfFulfFillment...
My eyes alway trip over that, too...
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:09 pm
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
or a keyboard issue...he's not the only person I've seen with this. Although he's the only active these days.
And maybe a better question is - Scott, why don't you edit your posts to remove the extra letters before you click ze button?
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:35 pm
Scott
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Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
when they came fFor the monsters, i did not speak up because I was not a monster. when they came fFor the european chrises, I did not speak up because I was not european. when they came fFor the people who talk fFunny, there was noone left to speak fFor me.
_________________Perplex City is a game whose only rule is: There must be a party.
Balance of Powers is a game whose only rule is: There must be a political party.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:38 pm
UKver2.0
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Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 270
I don't know how official this answer is, but here's an answer.
_________________Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Naomi: and then you’d try to anagram 'shovels'
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:44 pm
GuyIncognito
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Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 295
See? Told ya!
Thanks UKver 2.0! It seems that's all the answer you're gonna get, Mindez.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:56 pm
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