Comments by "dkosmari" (@dkosmari) on "Count Dankula" channel.

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  6. You left out a very important part of the whole ordeal; Perelman wasn't just pissed off at the field, he was pissed off at the elitist frauds sitting atop of the institutions all trying to use his reputation. Things like demanding to be co-author in his papers, put his name as co-author in their papers, etc. And above all, the jealousy and backstabbing. In that year while his Poincaré-Perelman theorem was being checked by the mathematical community (it was a global effort if I remember correctly) a famous Chinese mathematician rushed to plagiarize his proof and claim he solved it with the help of his students. And the academia was so corrupt, some even went along with the bullshit claim by the CCP that "Perelman's proof had some mistakes, but our genius Mathematician fixed it, he's the one that solved Poincaré's conjecture." Perelman was right, the field of Mathematics is full of corrupt, disgusting people, they don't deserve Perelman. He probably thought that accepting the awards, even the Fields Medal (I'd compare it to the Nobel Prize, not the Oscars), would just legitimize a corrupt system. The world "lost" a genius on the same level as Albert Einstein; for those that don't remember, Einstein published 4 papers within a single year (1905), all Nobel-worthy (but the rules only allow for giving one Nobel prize per person, so Einstein only got one), meanwhile no university wanted to hire him. Only 3 years later (1908), he finally got a lecturing (instead of research) position at a university. Srinivasa Ramanujan is another example of a snob, arrogant Mathematician class not respecting a genius, that pretty much invented an entire new field (Number Theory.) The prejudice was that Ramanujan had no formal training, and didn't even know how to write the proofs of his theorems down "properly." At some point, he too just wanted to quit Mathematics and take care of his mother back in India.
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