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The millennium problems is something done by a single institute to motivate progress on known open problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Prob

by dgellow 1mo ago

The millennium problems is something done by a single institute to motivate progress on known open problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

drusepth 1mo ago
Yes, but why?
- lanstin 1mo ago
  Because the mathematicians consulted 25 or so years ago believed their solutions would lead to the greatest amount of interesting new maths to explore, and because they had been validated as being hard by being attempted and not solved for a long time.