Today we live in the political field of flat vulgarity, two miserable dimensions accommodating spinning antifascism and its short-circuiting boring symmetry. Hopelessly far from God – our fragmented world is the mentioned “counterpart of a sphere”. We match in one link only – reclusion. This is a spiritual door of Russia where Dostoyevsky thought stays instead of “Arbeit and Money macht frei”. Said he (missing the formal accuracy): “Human consciousness might be understood as – an error”. Thus reclusion itself is our common missing link. Truly when we look at Russian government as a potent political body, we can see this tangible feature of creative reclusion. It is not symmetrical counterpart of America’s exclusiveness, but the counterpart of the sphere. Whatever the pressure – vacuum sucks them all. It is the gravity point of the sphere “in action”. Not understand? Right. Recluse.

Because they're all going to reach their nasty little hands into your bowl if you come out of hiding, make you do their homework and a bunch of complicated proofs that you simply aren't interested in. You'll lose all your good friends and people will find the oddest personal attacks against your person for worth over their insecurity and inability, especially since you aren't an ubber young mathematician - and I'm guessing that that's probably the reason that you didn't accept the award. But the fact that you said you aren't open means that you could be hiding something, so now you a bit of a mystery for people to explore. Annoying. I'd invent a fake semi-interesting existence then go back to doing whatever it is you do.

Perleman refused the prizes ... Could it be that in the Fine print of Accepting the $ 1 Mil and the medal , he had to Forfeit any other Claims basically , in exchange , his work , equivalent to a Patent , could be further sold by the Commetee that awarded the prize ? I wouldn't be surprised , even Writung contests ask for a similar deal , being just a set-up aimed at the author's Ego . But Perleman must be way smarter to let his ego take over . Would be nice to know the exact requirements for accepting that prize ...

I just say THANK YOU to this mathematician! But I think he has the right to choose what he thinks it's right and good for him! He's a human being, not someone to use or manipulate. And unfortunately, countries like US, UK, France, Germany, Israel, and others, will never tell to the population in which way they used the informations they obtained from advanced researchers(you only know and observe it's impact once or after it's done)

If he refuses, they should take the money and quietly set up a trust for his benefit. Make his life a little easier, but don't go public with it, let him decide. No strings attached.