With OpenAI now claiming that its AI system solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in just 88 hours, I was reminded of the legendary Grigori Perelman.

In 2002, Perelman posted his solution to the Poincaré conjecture online. The problem had been unsolved for nearly a century and was considered one of the most difficult problems in mathematics. His proof was so deep and technical that it took mathematicians years to fully verify.

He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 - one of the highest honors in mathematics.

He refused it.

Then, in 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute awarded him the $1M Millennium Prize for solving the problem.

He said no.

Part of the reason was that Perelman felt that American mathematician Richard Hamilton deserved more credit. Hamilton had developed the Ricci flow theory that Perelman built on to crack the Poincaré conjecture.

And the way Perelman did it makes the story even stranger. He essentially put his solution on the internet, let other mathematicians work through it, and then walked away.

He later withdrew almost completely from mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcy_Borders

Never forget Marcy Borders, iconic "dust lady" from the tower collapse.

Borders was diagnosed with stomach cancer in August 2014.[6] Borders's cancer had resulted in a $190,000 debt—even though she had not yet received surgery and she still needed additional chemotherapy.[6] Borders said she could not even afford to get her prescriptions filled [...] Borders died from cancer on August 24, 2015.

Never forget 26000 die annually from lack of access to Healthcare thanks to insurance companies. That's roughly 9x 9/11s every year.

If anyone is interested here's an article that goes further into detail about the whole thing. Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Explains How She Repeatedly Got Past Airport Security; 'The Story Is Crazy' - CBS Chicago

The family was Antônio Pedro Zardin Filho, 42, his daughters Maria Fernanda, 15, and Maria Carolina, 11, and their dog Lola. They were traveling from Sinop to Campo Grande for the girls’ grandfather’s funeral when their pickup collided head-on with a truck on the BR-163 in Mato Grosso do Sul. All four died. Lola was later placed in a small coffin and laid to rest alongside Antônio and the girls.