Thursday, September 07, 2006

Fields Medals announced and the also rejected!!!

Terence Tao ,Grigori Grisha Perelman and two more guys ....but not Manjul Bhargava...its OK...there is till time.....
Terence Tao is of Chinese origin and Perelman and one more guy(among the fields winners) are Russians.
The fourth guy is from France.
China has produced two fields Medalists by now.When is an Indian gona get it and make India proud???

GRIGORI PERELMAN

Grigory Perelman did not plan to become a mathematician. “There was never a decision point,” he said when we met. We were outside the apartment building where he lives, in Kupchino, a neighborhood of drab high-rises. Perelman’s father, who was an electrical engineer, encouraged his interest in math. “He gave me logical and other math problems to think about,” Perelman said. “He got a lot of books for me to read. He taught me how to play chess. He was proud of me.” Among the books his father gave him was a copy of “Physics for Entertainment,” which had been a best-seller in the Soviet Union in the nineteen-thirties. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.”

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