First place, david hilbert. German mathematician david hilbert invented and developed many ideas. At the beginning of the 20th century, david hilbert put forward 23 mathematical problems at the second congress of mathematicians. David hilbert pointed out that this should be a problem to be solved by scientists in the new era.
Finally, it proved that david hilbert's mathematical problems strongly promoted the development of mathematics in the 20th century, and had a great influence all over the world, which also made david hilbert gain the reputation of "the uncrowned king of mathematics".
Second place, Gregory perelman. Russian mathematician and Jew, his most outstanding is to prove an important unsolved problem in mathematics: Poincare conjecture. In 2000, the United States published Seven Difficult Problems in Millennium Mathematics. It is said that whoever can solve any of these seven problems can directly take away $6,543,800+0,000. Yes, grigory perelman did, but after solving this problem, grigory perelman didn't want the money at all.
When someone asked him, he just said: I'm not interested in money, I'm only interested in math problems, and I don't like showing my face. Actually, grigory perelman did not study Poincare's conjecture for money, because grigory perelman began to study Poincare's conjecture as early as 1995, and it took him seven years to verify this problem. At that time, grigory perelman just passed on his verification process to several mathematicians, but what he didn't expect was that it caused a sensation among mathematicians, and grigory perelman became a hot figure in all universities at one time.
Later, some mathematicians even tried to prove grigory perelman wrong, but after three years of testing, people finally found that Poincare conjecture was really solved. Grigory perelman became a real hot shot, and even someone offered him a high price to work, but grigory perelman didn't go. Just like grigory perelman turned down $654.38 million+$00,000. It is understood that grigory perelman rejected numerous awards in his life, even the Fields Prize in mathematics, which has the same status as the Nobel Prize, was rejected.
It can be said that grigory perelman is a true suitor. He doesn't like money, fame, wealth, or even marriage. If grigory perelman wants anything else, it must be math. We don't understand. Maybe this is a genius.