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Millenium Prize Problems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

what would change in the world if all these problems were solved?

>> No.4622478

Perleman's changed shit.

>> No.4622506
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Depends on how they where solved.
If an alien race comes down and says
"No, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes."
then not much will happen. But if people develope big frameworks like for fermats last scribblings, then there will be achievements in the field of mathermatics, which in 20 years have consequences for physics, which in 40 years might have some applications!

>> No.4622512

>>4622506
>if an alien race comes down, not much will happen

You herped so hard that you derped.

>> No.4622515

>>4622506
>then there will be achievements in the field of mathermatics, which in 20 years have consequences for physics
>implying it isn't always the opposite

>> No.4622521

>>4622515
Honestly, this.
Newton invented Calculus so he could get shit done.

>> No.4622531

>>4622515
it's mostly neither

there's only a small amount of crossover nowadays

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>>4622512
Why? I needed a "supernatural being", which knows the answers. If I'd have said god, on /sci/, this would have been a much bigger derp.
On the 'being knows answers' note, I read this article last week
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf
which I hereby recomend, it's quite interesting.

>>4622515
Always is a little over the top. Sure, physicis contribute in a huge way to mathematical progress. But it's also the other way around, even if that mostly means clarification of concepts. I guess both steal from each other. All the ideas in say the quasicristal business and concepts like super symmetry would have been a gigantic pain in the ass if mathematicans wound't have laid the framework.

>> No.4622556

Should P be proven equal to NP, though, a lot would happen.

>> No.4622595

>>4622474
As I understand it proving the P=NP problem would have a shitload of implications regarding both computation and philosophy.

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>>4622553
>www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf
>I rejoice that the sacred scriptures of our faith
portray a God who listens to prayer, who loves us and longs to lead
us. I rejoice that my chosen line of work, mathematics, has enabled me
to bring into being new things that did not exist before, and to greet
with wonder and awe many amazing inventions of my fellow workers. I
rejoice that daily we live immersed in infinity, that we have the freedom
not only to make choices but at times to be the agent, by will or by
grace, to sing to the Lord a new song.
>mfw