Want to become a millionaire? Just solve one of the Millenium Problems, and the Clay Mathematics Institute will set you up: $1M US, plus a free propeller beanie. Here are the seven million-dollar-prize problems:
- Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, the official problem definition for which states, in part,
L(C, s) = c(s-1)r + higher order terms
which incidentally that is the name of the next movie by Arntz, Chasse, and Vicente - Hodge Conjecture
- Navier-Stokes Equations
- P vs NP Problem
- Poincaré Conjecture, which has to do with the “multidimensional topology of space in three dimensions,” for example donuts.
- Riemann Hypothesis, which has to do with the distribution, and ultimately, perhaps, predictability of prime numbers.
- Yang-Mills and Mass Gap
If you want to compete in #s Q or T, where Q=5 and T=6, you’d better hurry because it looks like Louis de Branges and Grigori Perelman might have beat you to them. Oh, and by the way, de Branges’ work might “bring the whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight.”
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updated: 2004-09-07 13:53:14