Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Can Seepy Benton Win a Million Bucks?
This Is the Hardest Math Problem in the World: Don’t worry—I’m not going to ask you to solve it. You can win a million dollars if you do, but right now it baffles the world’s top mathematicians. It may well be the trickiest, most annoying, most elusive mathematical problem ever. It’s the P/NP problem, and ironically it asks: do hard math problems actually exist?
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Calling Dr. Kurt Godel! Calling Dr. Godel!
I once took a class in graduate school from the author, Ian Stewart, and I can assure you that hard math problems exist. Can I have my million dollars now?
If it involves dividing fractions, it's beyond me.
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