俄天才數(shù)學家拒領百萬大獎

        Interviewed in St Petersburg, Dr Perelman insisted that he was unworthy of all the attention, and was uninterested in his windfall. "I do not think anything that I say can be of the slightest public interest," he said. "I am not saying that because I value my privacy, or that I am doing anything I want to hide. There are no top-secret projects going on here. I just believe the public has no interest in me. "

　　在圣彼得堡接受采訪時，佩雷爾曼堅持說他不值得所有這些注目，他對這筆橫財也沒有興趣。“我不認為我的話可以引起公眾一丁點的興趣，”他說，“我這么說并非因為注重隱私或有意隱瞞自己所從事的事情。這里沒有什么絕密的項目。我只是相信公眾對我沒有任何興趣。”

　　He continued: "I know that self-promotion happens a lot and if people want to do that, good luck to them, but I do not regard it as a positive thing. I realised this a long time ago and nobody is going to change my mind. Newspapers should be more discerning over who they write about. They should have more taste. As far as I am concerned, I can't offer anything for their readers. "

　　他接著說到：“我知道經常會有自我炒作事件發(fā)生，如果別人想這樣做，我會祝他們好運，但我并不認為這是件好事。很久以前我就意識到這點了，沒有人能夠改變我的想法。報紙應該更加能辨別他們的報導對象。他們應當更有品味。在我看來，我無法向他們的讀者提供任何東西。”

　　"I don't base that on any negative experiences with the press, although they have been making up nonsense about my father being a famous physicist. It's just plain and simply that I don't care what anybody writes about me at all."

　　“我并非與媒體有任何過結，盡管他們杜撰說我的父親是一位著名物理學家。這沒什么，我只是完全不在乎別人怎么寫我。”

　　Dr Perelman has some small savings from his time as a lecturer, but is apparently reluctant to supplement them with the $1 million (?531,000) offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for solving one of the world's seven "Millennium Problems".

　　佩雷爾曼博士在做講師時存了一點錢，但他好像不太情愿領取克雷數(shù)學所頒發(fā)的百萬美元獎金。這個位于馬薩諸塞州劍橋的數(shù)學研究所懸賞了七個“千禧難題”，佩雷爾曼破解了其中之一。