The seven Millennium Prize Problems were chosen by the founding Scientific Advisory Board of CMI, which conferred with leading experts worldwide. The focus of the board was on important classic questions that have resisted solution for many years.Whoever solves any single problem gets $1,000,000 and if you solve all seven then you get the whole $7,000,000. In March 18, 2010, the first $1,000,000 was awarded to some russian for solving the Poincaré conjecture - that means there's only $6,000,000 left for the taking.
I am far from well versed in mathematics, and the odds of me solving one of these problems may be less favorable than that of winning the lottery, but I've been looking for a motivator to master this black magic (as my dad used to call it when I was little in order to get me excited about learning it) and I gotta tell you; after learning about this, I got about six million motives to lurk the mathematics section in B&N more often.
Amazing stuff man, I can't believe that there is actually that much money available for solving these. I'm tempted to try some myself but I really suck at Mathematics, probably much more than you do so I won't bother for now.
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