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This undated file photo released by the International Mathematician Congress shows Grigory Perelman
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010

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  • JAMES CARLSON,
  • president of the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., who told reclusive Russian genius Grigory Perelman that he won $1 million for solving a problem that had stumped mathematicians for a century; Perelman can't decide if he wants the money
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