Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries 221
coondoggie writes "Some math problems are as old as the wind, experts say, and many remain truly unsolved. But a new open source-based site from the American Institute of Mathematics looks to help track work done and solve long-standing and difficult math problems. The Institute, along with the National Science Foundation, has opened the AIM Problem Lists site to offer an organized and annotated collection of unsolved problems, and previously unsolved problems, in a specialized area of mathematics research. The problem list provides a snapshot of the current state of research in a particular research area, letting experts track new developments, and newcomers gain a perspective on the subject."
I have this proof. (Score:5, Funny)
Sadly... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Math cannot exist before wind. (Score:3, Funny)
they're a dime a dozen, too.
Re:I have this proof. (Score:4, Funny)
try twitter, it goes up to and includes 140 chars
Re:1 + 1 = 3 (Score:3, Funny)
or small values of 3
Re:Sadly... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I have this proof. (Score:3, Funny)
I have this wonderful proof for this conjecture, but unfortunately the 80 char limit for sig in slashdot is too small for it.
And thus was born the famous "140Mandak262Jamuna's Last Theorem" which was not fully proven until 2367 AD.
Re:Check out the Collatz Conjecture... (Score:3, Funny)
WHOA... Gotta love that little meme..
If the starting value n = 27 is chosen, the sequence, listed and graphed below, takes 111 steps, climbing to over 9,000 before descending to 1.
{ 27, 82, 41, 124, 62, 31, 94, 47, 142, 71, 214, 107, 322, 161, 484, 242, 121, 364, 182, 91, 274, 137, 412, 206, 103, 310, 155, 466, 233, 700, 350, 175, 526, 263, 790, 395, 1186, 593, 1780, 890, 445, 1336, 668, 334, 167, 502, 251, 754, 377, 1132, 566, 283, 850, 425, 1276, 638, 319, 958, 479, 1438, 719, 2158, 1079, 3238, 1619, 4858, 2429, 7288, 3644, 1822, 911, 2734, 1367, 4102, 2051, 6154, 3077, 9232, 4616, 2308, 1154, 577, 1732, 866, 433, 1300, 650, 325, 976, 488, 244, 122, 61, 184, 92, 46, 23, 70, 35, 106, 53, 160, 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 }
why not hide them in video games so we can (Score:5, Funny)
why not hide them in video games so we can get more people to look at them.
Re:Math cannot exist before wind. (Score:5, Funny)
Some say math is discovered. Others say it is invented.
And still others (especially those in grade school and high school) say that math should neither have been invented nor discovered.
Re:Meh. (Score:5, Funny)
Mathematically modelling the brain would seem to be a very trivial problem.
Yours perhaps...