Become A Millionaire By Solving Any Of These Tough Math Problems

Mathematics -- some find it fascinating, some even find it exciting, but most of us truly hate it for the spins and turns it puts our brains through. However, if you think you¡¯re really good at maths, then solving a few equations could award you with a $1 million prize.

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In the year 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute first unveiled to the world the ¡®Millenium Prize Problems¡¯ -- a set of mathematical problems that were selected by a scientific advisory board.

These were actually categorised as a classical problem that has resisted a solution for several years.

They were picked primarily due to their difficult-to-solve nature. And to this date, only one -- Poincare Conjecture -- was solved in 2006 by mathematician Grigori Perelman with the remaining six of these problems still unsolved. But that doesn¡¯t mean that they¡¯re impossible to solve.

Clay Institute is willing to offer a $1 million prize to any mathematics genius who thinks they can solve these problems. The solution will have to be peer-reviewed though. In case you have your interest piqued, here are the six mathematics problems that are worth $1 million.

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The Navier-Stokes equations

This equation looks over the flow of fluids such as water and air. While no proof exists of an equation for questions like ¡°do solutions exist?¡± and ¡°are they unique?¡± Mathematicians and physicists are of the belief that they can predict and explain the turbulence in a modern jet if one understands the Navier-Stokes equations.

Yang-Mills and Mass Gap

Several computer simulations and experiments in the past have hinted at the existence of a mass gap. It is said that even though the classic waves travel at light speed, the quantum particles do have positive masses. But this hasn¡¯t really been understood from a theoretical point of view yet.

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The Riemann Hypothesis

This yet-to-be-solved number equation is a conclusion that the Riemann Zeta function has its zeros only at the negative, even the integers and complex numbers with real part ?. Basically, it implies results about the distribution of prime numbers.

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

If the previous problems sounded difficult, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture is recognised as one of the most difficult mathematics problems to solve. The problem is related to number theory. Clay Math explains, ¡°It asserts that if ¦Æ(1) is equal to 0, then there are an infinite number of rational points (solutions), and conversely, if ¦Æ(1) is not equal to 0, then there is only a finite number of such points.¡±

The Hodge Conjecture

This unsolved problem is actually connected to algebraic geometry that relates to the algebraic topology of a non-singular complex algebraic variety. The equation was not as popular until Hodge himself presented it at the 1950 International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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P vs NP

This equation is linked to computer science and goes by the rule: ¡°If the solution to a problem is easy to check for correctness so the problem should be easy to solve?¡±. P here is a set of relatively easy problems whereas NP is a set of very hard equations. The equation implies P=NP that would mean that hard problems will have somewhat simple solutions.

Which one are you going to start your millionaire journey with? Tell us in the comments below.