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Vladimir_M comments on Grigori Perelman refused prize because he knows "how to control the universe" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 14 May 2011 01:14:54AM *  9 points [-]

The Pravda article is a secondary account of an alleged interview with Perelman published recently by Komsomolskaya Pravda, another historic Russian Communist Party newspaper that has turned into a tabloid since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The KP article is here (if you can't decode Russian, automatic translation should give you the idea):
http://kp.ru/daily/25677.3/836229/

It's hard to tell how credible any of this is. To make it even weirder, the article is accompanied by what looks like a stalker video of Perelman walking around town.