The Millennium Prize Problems

I ran into this article not too long ago, and I was reminded how cool The Millennium Prize Problems are.

These are some of the most difficult problems that mathematicians consider significant. Since the seven problems were announced in 2000, only one has been solved.

The reclusive mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture in 2003. Then, in 2006, he turned down the Fields Medal. He refused to accept the million dollars associated with solving one of The Millennium Prize Problems.

What an extraordinary accomplishment! And what a strange story…

Of the six problems that have not been solved, I’m most curious about the Yang-Mills Existence and the Map Gap problem. Along with Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness, it’s the one that’s most closely related to open questions in theoretical physics.

I wonder when we’ll manage to solve another one…