My capacity to make such comparisons fades to zero soon after they get past the 2 x table. But Terence Tao seems to agree with you. From Wiki:
Terence Tao spoke about Perelman's work on the Poincaré Conjecture:
“
They [the Millennium Prize Problems] are like these huge cliff walls, with no obvious hand holds. I have no idea how to get to the top. [Perelman's proof of the Poincare Conjecture] is a fantastic achievement, the most deserving of all of us here in my opinion." Sadly, also from Wiki: "
According to a 2006 interview, Perelman is currently jobless, living with his mother in St Petersburg."Here are the two of them with two other Fields Medal Winners at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, 2006
Left to right -
1 Grigori Perelman
2 Terence Tao
3 Juan Carlos I of Spain
4 Andrei Okounkov
5 Wendelin Werner
Source:
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