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In 2003, Perelman, a Saint Petersburg native, became known for solving the Poincaré conjecture, the solution that had eluded mathematicians for almost a century.

In 2006, Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal for this work, but declined to accept it. Sir John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, spent a chilly day in Saint Petersburg trying to convince Perelman to accept it, but failed miserably.

In 2010, Perelman was awarded a $1 million Millennium Prize, but once again Perelman declined it.

“I'm not interested in money or fame.” he was quoted as saying when declining the award.

Perelman lives with his mother in a spartan apartment in a St. Petersburg suburb. He plays a violin.

Overall, he is a sample of the true Soviet person. He was raised in the USSR. He is aimed at creation and achievements, not money. A really rare species nowadays.

Gallery:

Year 1980. Grigory and other winners of All-USSR Olympiad on mathematics.

Year 1982. Soviet participants of XXIII International Mathematical Olympiad, Budapest, Hungary. Left to right: V. Titenko, K. Matveev, A. Spivak, G. Perelman.

Year 1985. Grigory is a student of the Leningrad State University, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics

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

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Biography: Ginestà was born in Toulouse to, on 29 January 1919, into a working-class leftist family that had emigrated to France from Spain. Her parents were both tailors: Empar Coloma Chalmeta, from Valencia, and Bruno Ginestà Manubens, from Manresa. She moved to Barcelona with her parents at the age of 11. Ginestà later joined the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. As the war broke out in 1936, she served as a reporter and a translator assisting Mikhail Koltsov, a correspondent of the Soviet newspaper Pravda.[2] Before the end of the war, Ginestà was wounded and evacuated to Montpellier. As France was occupied by the Nazis, she fled to the Dominican Republic where she married a former Republican officer. In 1946, she was forced to leave the country because of the persecution by the dictator Rafael Trujillo and relocate to Venezuela. In 1949, she divorced her husband and moved to France. In 1952, Ginestà married a Belgian diplomat and returned to Barcelona. She moved to Paris in 1978. Marina Ginestà died there at the age of 94 in January 2014.

Source: Wikipedia - Marina Ginestà