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TIL in 2003 unknown Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman proved the long awaited Poincaré conjecture publishing it openly. He is the only person to reject Fields Medal, Clay Millennium prize of $1,000,000 and EMS prize. He has since vanished back to obscurity.

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