Terence Tao on Grigori Perelman declining the Fields Medal

There's a funny story I read that when you won the Fields Medal, somebody from the internet wrote you and asked, you know, what are you going to do now that you've won this prestigious award and then you just quickly very humbly said that, you know, this a shiny metal is not going to solve any of the problems I'm currently working on. So, I'm just I'm going to keep I'm going to keep working on them. First of all, it's funny to me that you would answer an email in that context.It just shows your humility. Bu ...