{"id":198885,"date":"2024-11-07T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/andrew-akbashev-on-linkedin-science-research-engineering-mathematics-scienceandtechnology"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:24:12","slug":"andrew-akbashev-on-linkedin-science-research-engineering-mathematics-scienceandtechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/andrew-akbashev-on-linkedin-science-research-engineering-mathematics-scienceandtechnology","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Akbashev on LinkedIn: #science #research #engineering #mathematics #scienceandtechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/andrew-akbashev-on-linkedin-science-research-engineering-mathematics-scienceandtechnology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>True humility is rare today. It takes courage and a strong stance. It\u2019s the story of Grigori Perelman, who proved the Poincar\u00e9 conjecture \u2014 the only one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems solved by humanity. 1\ufe0f\u20e3 In 1990s, Perelman worked at UC Berkeley. Top universities tried to hire him. A hiring committee at Stanford asked him for a C.V. to include with requests for letters of recommendation. But Perelman said: \u201cIf they know my work, they don\u2019t need my C.V. If they need my C.V., they don\u2019t know my work.\u201d he received several job offers. But he declined them all. 2\ufe0f\u20e3 In 2002\u20132003, he posted three manuscripts on arXiv where he solved the Poincare problem. On a PREPRINT server. Not in a journal! He did not care about publishing them in Nature. He did not care about getting them peer reviewed. He just wanted to make his work publicly available. Several leading math groups immediately started checking his proof. 3\ufe0f\u20e3 In 2006, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Ricci flow and Poincare conjecture. But Perelman declined it: \u201c[The prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed.\u201d He did not attend the ceremony. He was the only person to have ever declined the prize. 4\ufe0f\u20e3 In 2010, Perelman was awarded a Millennium Prize ($1,000,000). He did not attend a ceremony in Paris as well. He considered the decision of the Clay Institute unfair because he wanted to share the prize with Richard Hamilton (who had a big influence on Perelman in 1990s). \u201cThe main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community. I don\u2019t like their decisions, I consider them UNJUST.\u201d \u2757\ufe0fWhy I am writing all this? Because: There\u2019s no fairness in academia. It\u2019s unjust and often illogical. It\u2019s full of competition and unkindness. Perelman was very sensitive to it. So, he left mathematics\u2026 IF we don\u2019t want to lose brilliant minds like this\u2026 IF we want our kids to love science as they grow up\u2026 Then we should focus on making it a better place. Less pressure on tenure track professors. No pursuit of metrics. No emphasis on awards. More mentorship and quality research. We need it. #science #research #engineering #mathematics #scienceandtechnology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True humility is rare today. It takes courage and a strong stance. It\u2019s the story of Grigori Perelman, who proved the Poincar\u00e9 conjecture \u2014 the only one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems solved by humanity. 1\ufe0f\u20e3 In 1990s, Perelman worked at UC Berkeley. Top universities tried to hire him. A hiring committee at Stanford [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,2229,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mathematics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}