famous open questions in mathematics
Despite the fact that at least a generation of mathematicians has tried to solve these problems, they still remain open:
- 1.
Goldbach conjecture
- 2.
Twin prime conjecture
- 3.
Poincaré conjecture
- 4.
Riemann Hypothesis
- 5.
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
- 6.
P vs NP problem
- 7.
Hodge conjecture
- 8.
Solution to the Navier-Stokes equations
- 9.
Collatz problem
- 10.
Schanuel’s conjecture
- 11.
Beal conjecture
- 12.
Irrationality of Euler’s constant
- 13.
Existence of an odd perfect number
- 14.
Koethe conjecture
- 15.
Invariant subspace problem
- 16.
Lehmer’s conjecture
Open problems 3 to 8, together with the quest for a mathematical foundation explaining the mass gap property in Yang-Mills theory, constitute a collection
of problems known as the Millennium Problems. Please see http://www.claymath.org/millennium/http://www.claymath.org/millennium/ for more detail.
Note:A mathematical foundation for the partial solution of the the mass gap property in Yang-Mills theory has been published by G. Cleaver and K. Tanaka (2000): “Ratio of Quark Masses in Duality Theories.”,http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002089v1on line, and can be accessed as ahttp://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0002/0002089v1.pdfPDF file .