{"id":301,"date":"2008-08-22T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:37:03","slug":"we-would-all-be-better-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/we-would-all-be-better-if\/","title":{"rendered":"We Would All Be Better If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We cared more of substance than fluff. The fields doesn&#8217;t matter, recognition doesn&#8217;t\u00a0 matter. I don&#8217;t like sounding like a Randite but it is very true. We give value to something we must choose the right things to value.<br \/>\nfrom the new yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/08\/28\/060828fa_fact2?currentPage=all\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ball wanted to keep his visit a secret\u2014the names of Fields Medal recipients are announced officially at the awards ceremony\u2014and the conference center where he met with Perelman was deserted. For ten hours over two days, he tried to persuade Perelman to agree to accept the prize. Perelman, a slender, balding man with a curly beard, bushy eyebrows, and blue-green eyes, listened politely. He had not spoken English for three years, but he fluently parried Ball\u2019s entreaties, at one point taking Ball on a long walk\u2014one of Perelman\u2019s favorite activities. As he summed up the conversation two weeks later: \u201cHe proposed to me three alternatives: accept and come; accept and don\u2019t come, and we will send you the medal later; third, I don\u2019t accept the prize. From the very beginning, I told him I have chosen the third one.\u201d The Fields Medal held no interest for him, Perelman explained. \u201cIt was completely irrelevant for me,\u201d he said. <strong>\u201cEverybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cared more of substance than fluff. The fields doesn&#8217;t matter, recognition doesn&#8217;t\u00a0 matter. I don&#8217;t like sounding like a Randite but it is very true. We give value to something we must choose the right things to value. from the new yorker here Ball wanted to keep his visit a secret\u2014the names of Fields &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/we-would-all-be-better-if\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Would All Be Better If&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-sentence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}