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Re: 21st Century 'Hilbert' problems
Posted:
Feb 5, 1999 3:31 PM
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Simon Croall wrote:
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> Hi,
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> With the 21st century almost upon us;
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> In a similar fashion to Hilbet's 23 problems but forward in 1900. What
> would be the problems that you think should be presented to challenge
> mathematicians of the 21st century?
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> Who do you think is best qualified, currently, in the mathematics world
> to present these new/old problems?
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> Thanks for your time..
> Simon Croall
> email : src103@york.ac.uk
There was an article in Notices of the AMS, I think by Smale,
which gave a list of such problems for the 21st Century.
One very fascinating problem, I think, is to show that the
Navier-Stokes equation (the equation for incompressible
fluid) has unique solutions in 3 dimensions.
--
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