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  2. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    The seven problems were officially announced by John Tate and Michael Atiyah during a ceremony held on May 24, 2000 (at the amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre) in the Collège de France in Paris. [3] Grigori Perelman, who had begun work on the Poincaré conjecture in the 1990s, released his proof in 2002 and 2003. His refusal of the Clay ...

  3. List of unsolved problems in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Many mathematical problems have been stated but not yet solved. These problems come from many areas of mathematics, such as theoretical physics, computer science, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory, group theory, model theory, number theory, set theory, Ramsey theory, dynamical systems, and partial differential equations.

  4. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

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    It is likely that the idea of demonstrating a conclusion first arose in connection with geometry, which originated in practical problems of land measurement. [8] The development of mathematical proof is primarily the product of ancient Greek mathematics , and one of its greatest achievements. [ 9 ]

  5. Langley's Adventitious Angles - Wikipedia

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    The article contains a history of the problem and a picture featuring the regular triacontagon and its diagonals. In 2015, an anonymous Japanese woman using the pen name "aerile re" published the first known method (the method of 3 circumcenters) to construct a proof in elementary geometry for a special class of adventitious quadrangles problem.

  6. Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem - Wikipedia

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    Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem is an unsolved minimization problem in geometry, originating in 1955 by the American applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. [1] The problem is often stated as follows: "A hiker is lost in a forest whose shape and dimensions are precisely known to him.

  7. Inscribed square problem - Wikipedia

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    The inscribed square problem, also known as the square peg problem or the Toeplitz' conjecture, is an unsolved question in geometry: Does every plane simple closed curve contain all four vertices of some square? This is true if the curve is convex or piecewise smooth and in other special cases. The problem was proposed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911. [1]

  8. Hilbert's second problem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Hilbert's second problem was posed by David Hilbert in 1900 as one of his 23 problems. It asks for a proof that arithmetic is consistent – free of any internal contradictions. Hilbert stated that the axioms he considered for arithmetic were the ones given in Hilbert (1900) , which include a second order completeness axiom.

  9. Doubling the cube - Wikipedia

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    Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient [a] [1]: 9 geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube , the problem requires the construction of the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first.