It looks like the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is parting with its first one million USD. Indeed, today the CMI announced that Grigoriy Perelman is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. Full details are here and a full-length press release is also available.
What do you think will be the next Millennium Prize Problem to fall? It seems very unlikely that it will be our own P vs. NP problem, but, as Bohr taught us, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future".
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Considering Perelman's habit of rejecting prizes, CMI may keep the prize money after all.
Yes, and perhaps that was CMI's hidden rationale for giving the prize exclusively to Perelman... ? (as opposed to sharing w/ those who fleshed out details of his proof)
Fleshed out the details of his proof, please! You could make an argument that Hamilton deserved some of the credit for building the machinery, but if people begin sharing prizes for just rewriting the SAME proofs then we are in deep trouble,
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