The Millennium Prize Problems, for the uninitiated.
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I was watching a movie earlier that mentioned The Millennium Prize Problems. I've heard about this kind of stuff before but I've never really known anything about them. Where do they come from? Do people just create them out of nowhere and make them as hard as possible or is there more to it? What makes them so hard that people end up spending their entire adult lives trying to solve them often without any success?
Looking to get my recently retired dad without a strong math background (HS Algebra) interested in math. I was hoping there might be a good intro book that explains one or all of the problems and why they are so important.
Also, he's very into woodworking and if anybody can recommend any books that show how trig/geometry is applicable to woodworking that would be great too.
I read the P, NP problems are important because cryptography and a lot of technology relies on it and would need to be updated. I googled for ten minutes but couldn't find the answer I am looking for.
Is there an explanation of why each problem is important? hopefully in a lot of detail
If not, can anyone here please help?
I understand it takes a LOT of mathematical foundation just to understand the problem, and near impossible to understand the solution (Poincare Conjecture was a nightmare for even the most brilliant minds). However, what interests me about the these problems is not the question itself or the solution, but why they are important.
If you were to explain these problems to your children or someone without a super high level of mathematics education, how would you do it? Again, we want to explain why they are important.
I have a good understanding of P vs. NP problem, and why this is important proved one way or the other. I'm very eager to hear interesting thoughts on the other 6, but your own explanation on all 7 are welcomed.
In 2000, Clay Mathematics Institute compiled The Seven Millennium Prize Problems, each holding a prize of $1 million. I remember reading about how one of them (the Poincaré conjecture) was solved, but I haven't heard of any progress on any of the remaining six. Are they regarded as unsolvable or are there still active pursuits to find solutions to them? The oldest of the bunch, the Riemann Hypothesis, was proposed in 1859 and it boggles my mind that it has remained unsolved for so long.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Their videos on Riemann and Poincare were both really good. I want to understand each of the 7 questions (now i know these 2 + P vs NP), and figure 10-20 minute videos by Numberphile would be a great way to learn quickly a high level of these quesitons.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
One by one...nice and slow :)
