Million Dollar Math Problem

Dec 26, 2009 English 1st Paragraph

In 2000, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematics Institute — a nonprofit organization devoted to popularizing mathematical ideas and encouraging their professional exploration — identified seven exceptionally difficult math problems, and offered a million dollars for the solution of each. One was the Poincaré Conjecture, a classic of topology that was formulated by Henri Poincaré in 1904. No one expected that this particular problem — or any of the six others — would be solved anytime soon…

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