{"id":305,"date":"2008-08-22T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-08-22T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:14:32","slug":"ideal-to-aspire-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/ideal-to-aspire-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideal To Aspire To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the new yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/08\/28\/060828fa_fact2?currentPage=all\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mikhail Gromov, the Russian geometer, said that he understood Perelman\u2019s logic: <strong>\u201cTo do great work, you have to have a pure mind. You can think only about the mathematics. Everything else is human weakness. Accepting prizes is showing weakness.\u201d <\/strong>Others might view Perelman\u2019s refusal to accept a Fields as arrogant, Gromov said, but his principles are admirable. <strong>\u201cThe ideal scientist does science and cares about nothing else,\u201d <\/strong>he said. <strong>\u201cHe wants to live this ideal. Now, I don\u2019t think he really lives on this ideal plane. But he wants to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the new yorker here Mikhail Gromov, the Russian geometer, said that he understood Perelman\u2019s logic: \u201cTo do great work, you have to have a pure mind. You can think only about the mathematics. Everything else is human weakness. Accepting prizes is showing weakness.\u201d Others might view Perelman\u2019s refusal to accept a Fields as arrogant, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/ideal-to-aspire-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideal To Aspire To&#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":[60,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-views","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}