Some of Perelman’s friends noticed that he was becoming more and more ascetic. Visitors from St. Petersburg who stayed in his apartment were struck by how sparsely furnished it was. Others worried that he seemed to want to reduce life to a set of rigid axioms. When a member of a hiring committee at Stanford asked him for a C.V. to include with requests for letters of recommendation, Perelman balked. “If they know my work, they don’t need my C.V.,” he said. “If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.”
Ultimately, he received several job offers. But he declined them all, and in the summer of 1995 returned to St. Petersburg, to his old job at the Steklov Institute, where he was paid less than a hundred dollars a month.
Yakov Eliashberg, a mathematician at Stanford who knew Perelman at Berkeley, thinks that Perelman returned to Russia in order to work on the Poincaré.
수도승 같은 사람인듯. 수학문제 에만 전념하는. 하긴 미국은 너무 디스트랙션이 많지. 해밀턴도 그래서 능력에 비해 논문수는 형편없겠고. 자본주의 성향따라 즐겨야 하니까…사람은 어차피 성향따라 가는듯.
근데 저 중국교수 이름은 이름자체가 신동이군. 여 신동?