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pheloniusfriar) wrote2014-02-04 12:32 pm
pheloniusfriar) wrote2014-02-04 12:32 pm
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A million dolla?
Would you like a million dollars? Don't want to have to do it by starting your own company or coming up with the next best thing since sliced bread?
Solve this equation (click on the image to go to the Wikipedia article):
You will receive 1 million US dollars if you do. It is the Navier-Stokes Equation and it is used thousands, if not millions, of times a day all over the world to do calculations about the motion of fluids (from cheese production to weather "prediction" to designing supersonic aircraft). The problem is... there is no known solution. Wait, you say... you just said people used it to do things... yes, I respond, we (humans) have figured out some cool ways of approximating answers that tests have proven to be extremely accurate, so we can use the equation as a practical tool, but, even given the values of all of the variables, we cannot solve it for the value of v.
The prize is one of seven "Millennium Prize Problems" put forward by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) and backed up with a 1 million dollar prize each. The page for the Navier-Stokes Equation problem, which will give a link to the rules and stuff, is here.
It's simple as that.
You're welcome ;).
P.S. I needed to do a little bit of work to display that equation image from Wikipedia for this post (a transparent image with black text and anti-aliasing on an unpredictable background), so I thought I should share my solution... both so I can go back to it myself some day, and in case anybody else should have to do such a thing at some point... Because Dreamwidth and Livejournal and their ilk don't like you to define your own styles dynamically, the style specification had to be placed inline:
<img src="http://blah_blah_blah.png" style="border: 5px white solid; background-color: white;"/>
Solve this equation (click on the image to go to the Wikipedia article):
You will receive 1 million US dollars if you do. It is the Navier-Stokes Equation and it is used thousands, if not millions, of times a day all over the world to do calculations about the motion of fluids (from cheese production to weather "prediction" to designing supersonic aircraft). The problem is... there is no known solution. Wait, you say... you just said people used it to do things... yes, I respond, we (humans) have figured out some cool ways of approximating answers that tests have proven to be extremely accurate, so we can use the equation as a practical tool, but, even given the values of all of the variables, we cannot solve it for the value of v.
The prize is one of seven "Millennium Prize Problems" put forward by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) and backed up with a 1 million dollar prize each. The page for the Navier-Stokes Equation problem, which will give a link to the rules and stuff, is here.
It's simple as that.
You're welcome ;).
P.S. I needed to do a little bit of work to display that equation image from Wikipedia for this post (a transparent image with black text and anti-aliasing on an unpredictable background), so I thought I should share my solution... both so I can go back to it myself some day, and in case anybody else should have to do such a thing at some point... Because Dreamwidth and Livejournal and their ilk don't like you to define your own styles dynamically, the style specification had to be placed inline:
<img src="http://blah_blah_blah.png" style="border: 5px white solid; background-color: white;"/>