pure math has no real-world applications thoughever

>triggered by a number
ngmi

>>16971051
There are literally six unsolved "millenium" math problems which each have a one million dollar bounty from the Clay Institute of Mathematics. Lol.

>>16971070
I don't think it's for specific papers like the nobel just your general vibe and past research.
It's one of those things that open up doors for you like having Stanford on your resume. VC just throws money at any Stanford kid trying to build a startup.

>>16971072
the fact that
>destroy all cryptography forever
is prized at $1,000,000 while elon is approaching $1,000,000,000,000 says it all

>>16971072
This
Git good basically

>>16971072
>just prove or disprove the rieeman hypothesis bro, even tho it has no basis in anything to be proved or disproved

>>16971074
They should probably price them by the level of difficulty. Would make it way more enticing/exciting

>>16971079
well empirically speaking all but one of the problems are so far unsolvable, so they would be worth infinite amounts of money
this also explains why grisha didn't take any money for proving poincare, because as soon as he did prove it became trivial and not worth anything

>>16971074
Clay does not personally benefit from it they are willing to throw away 6 million into the trash just to advance human understanding of the world lol.

>>16971084
those 6 million are by now less than the yearly revenue by the institute as of 2025 actualthoubeit

>>16971081
If they're so easy to solve why hasnt someone solved all of them and become a deca millionaire yet?

>>16971051
The people motivated by money aren't the types to enhance humanity anyway.

>>16971391
two reasons:
they aren't solved yet so they are impossible to solve
having 6 million dollars does not make one a decamillionaire because deca means ten

>>16971081
I heard he rejected the money because he said he just stole his solution from some guy who already solved that problem years ago and nobody realized it lol.

>>16971397
Nah he used it as foundation.
He was really excited to meet him too but realized he was retarded and only read half his paper when he finally talked to him.

>>16971488
You mean Richard Hamilton? Perlman just said that it wouldn't be right to award the full million to him when Hamiltons work was equally as important and impactful.

>>16971078
true knowers know that the navier stokes or yang mills is next to be cracked. any other problem is wasting your time

>>16971051
Golems don't want to discover or invent shit because golems can only think about improving their inherently hopeless positions as slaves by slaving harder for the Mamonite class.

>>16971504
>accept million prize
>donate half to hamilton
but no, instead he rejects it because he's a self-righteous aspie who can't even solve a simple problem