To Be or Not to Be

To be or not to be, that is the question. As Neo said in the movie The Matrix Reloaded, the problem is choice. However, most of time we've already made the choice and the problem is to understand it.

Without question, Grigory Perelman has made his choice to turn down the 2006 Fields Medal, and is believed to live in St. Petersburg reclusively. He's made such great contributions to the Poincaré conjecture that maybe even another label pales. The New Yorker has published an interesting article on the topic of the Poincaré conjecture though it's more like a political novel messing with intrigues.

Meanwhile, Pluto has no opportunity to made its own choice: to be or not to be a planet. It is now out of our solar system as a planet in a recent vote by the International Astronomical Union and considered as a "dwarf planet". People always prefer labeling, and usually show little respect to inherency.