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Genius Grigori Perelman shuns fame, lives with mum and is a fine example, says robert matthews

He looks like someone who lives in a box begging from strangers. The truth is hardly less downbeat: unemployed Grigori Perelman (right) lives in penury with his mum in a St Petersburg flat.

Yet Dr Perelman is the latest star to adorn the firmament of celebrity. At lunchtime today, it was announced that he had declined the Fields Medal, the 'Nobel Prize' of mathematics. Dr Perelman is a shoo-in for the $1m reward, awarded by the American financier and maths enthusiast Landon Clay, for solving a century-old problem known as the Poincare Conjecture.