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Panda
November 12th, 2003, 17:42
Hey, if anyone wants to earn some money, the Clay Math Institute is offering $1 million dollars to anyone who can solve any of these problems. $1 million dollars per question. There are seven questions. By my calculations that means you could win $7 million dollars. Imagine the stuff you could buy with that.

The seven problems are entitled:

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Hodge Conjecture
Navier-Stokes Equations
P vs NP
Poincare Conjecture
Riemann Hypothesis
Yang-Mills Theory

Here's the link for more information...
http://www.claymath.org/Millennium_Prize_Problems/

Keep in mind that no one has ever solved these so I'm guessing they are rather difficult. Everytime I read them I laugh because they are just ridiculously hard. But hey, if one of you can nail some of these you just made a cool couple of million. Have fun! :mrgreen:

-=DoW=- Deze
November 12th, 2003, 19:49
If you cant solve them Panda......... then who can??? :lol: :lol:

[FS]WhiteTiger2225
November 12th, 2003, 21:03
Well...let's ask mr Hawking...yea that guy in the wheel chair with a computer that talks for him...panda's dream job :lol:

This contest was released in 2000 i think, my math teacher has the news paper clipping in his room. He said his college professor solved one of the one's that was on one of those lists about 20 years ago...dunno if that's true or what...

Panda
November 12th, 2003, 21:16
If you cant solve them Panda......... then who can??? :lol: :lol:

Ha! Yeah right! I could never even come close to getting one of those! My brain would implode.

5thColumn
November 12th, 2003, 21:22
The P versus NP Problem looks fun but that would require a few kegs and a dozen pizza's or so.