Mr. Perelman, the reclusive Russian, is the nearest to [A] claiming any of the prize money and [B] would have won $1 million for solving one of the oldest puzzles in mathematics, but the British Association Science Festival in Exeter was told that [C] from wanting to be a millionaire, Mr. Perelman has shown a [D] modesty more fitting to the 18th century than the 21st and shows no sign of publishing his proof in the literature.
