While a layperson might have a tough time penetrating the quantum physics behind the Yang-Mills and Mass Gap problem, they have no difficulty understanding the meaning of the number 1 followed by 6 zeros and preceded by a dollar sign. To create a bit of frisson among the public for the so-called Millennium Prize Problems, the Clay Institute announced it would offer a one-million-dollar reward apiece for solutions to the problems. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass., identified seven math problems it deemed the most "important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years." Several of them had in fact resisted solution for more than a century the Rieman Hypothesis, for example, has confounded mathematicians since its formulation in 1859.
Posed his famously bedeviling math problem more than a century ago. A million-dollar math problem by Borgna Brunner
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