[klabb3]

> There's a great half mad Russian mathematician who didn't take much part in society

Grigori Perelman, my personal hero:

> A reporter who had called him was told: "You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

[DeathArrow]

I didn't want to nominate him. People here can be nasty.

Anyway, guy is a lunatic from a legal or social perspective and a genius otherwise.

Why can't people and the media respect his privacy?

He doesn't have a signed contract with society to produce math.