What are the unsolved mathematical questions that pay $1 million to the answerer?

Question

A friend was telling me that there are certain mathematical proofs that need to be, well, proven and some organisation is offering $1 million if you can. Does anyone know what these are?

P.S. I'm not intending to attempt the proofs, I'm just curious.

Answer 1

The Clay Institute has offerred a million dollars apiece for the Millenium Problems. One (the Poincare conjecture) has been solved (according to experts) but the solver has not published the results and will not collect the money without doing so.

Answer 2

There is a prize of $100,000 for the discovery of a prime number with more than 10 million digits to it. The GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project is now very close to achieving that, having found a prime (M43) in December 2005 with over 9 million digits to it. GIMPS is something anyone with a home PC can join, so there IS room for the amateur in this particular gold rush.

Once achieved, minds will then focus on the higher prizes for even bigger primes also on offer. The first such prize (for a million digit prime) was claimed six years ago.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use special software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers.

This project has been rather successful: it has already found a total of nine Mersenne primes, each of which was the largest known prime at the time of discovery.

The money is awarded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has sponsored cooperative computing awards, with over half a million dollars in prize money, to encourage ordinary Internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems.

Through the EFF Cooperative Computing Awards, EFF promised to confer prizes of:

$50,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000 decimal digits (awarded Apr. 6, 2000)

$100,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits

$150,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 100,000,000 decimal digits

$250,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000,000 decimal digits

Answer 3

Mate don't doodle over it,if professors cant solve them then the boat ain't meant for you or me.Here's a suggestion though,invent a theorem,make sure it hasn't been invented yet,find a way to prove it(because if someone proves it before you it is their theorem not yours)then take a press conference with the sun and then the big fish will find you.

Take notes on this,coz its my theorem to becoming rich...hehehe,just kidding,good luck and all the best.

Answer 4

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I love it!

Answer 5

One is that every even number, except for 2, can be made by adding 2 prime numbers together.

Answer 6

I don't know about the one million dollars, but you could certainly go about trying to solve the twin prime conjecture.

Answer 7

Here is a link to some of them (at least the most famous of them, called the millennium problems):

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/

Answer 8

A milliampere and keep your worthless money. I do not need your worthless Monopoly money.

Answer 9

they are in the mathmatical or scientific journal or both... im not exactly sure what they are but you can find them that way

Answer 10

sorry ..I really don't know If u knew please tell me about it so that I could be rich