genius

Восхищаюсь Перельманом. Хотелось бы им гордиться и сказать наш. Но это, конечно, смешно. Вот он-то точно ничей, свой собственный. И нам, обывателям, бездарностям, понять его невозможно. Но находятся же уроды, которые зарятся на его неполученные деньги.

Now he has proved again, and in spectacular fashion, that he despises society's conventional norms. Picking up the telephone last week, the bearded genius, who is jobless, found himself being offered an academic prize worth $1 million.
He politely but tersely told the prestigious American institute offering him the prize that he would have to consider whether he wanted to accept the money or not.
"It is not every day that a person even entertains turning down a million dollars."
The Russian has turned down high honours before. In 2006, he was offered and declined the Fields Medal, the mathematical world's equivalent of a Nobel Prize. He said at the time he was "not interested in money or fame" and did not want "everybody looking at me like I'm a creature in a zoo".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7530771/Russian-maths-genius-may-turn-down-1m-prize.html