Firm No From Grisha

A story on Grisha Perelman in the NYT escaped my attention but I got to it a couple of days ago. In a past blog post, I stated that Grisha appeared reluctant to formally accept the prize for providing the correct solution to Poincaire Conjecture. At the time, it was clearly premature to call it out as an outright rejection but it appears that he was not bluffing or trying to get media attention. Dennis Overbye confirms that in spite of approaches from the Clay Mathematics Institute, he has stated unequivocally that he will not accept the honour and the prize.  

This should put an end to it but I hope hat Grisha will take time to publish some information on what his disagreements are with the  "organized mathematics community".