Well, I have this book a while ago, and just found it again while I'm moving... Of course there is no free lunch, and you must work on it :D
The book title is "The Millennium Problems" - The 7 Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time.
In May 2000, the CMI announced seven $1 Million prizes for the solution to each seven unsolved problems of Mathematics in Paris. There is a promotional site: www.claymath.org
Somehow, the problems are pretty interesting, and if someone would like to work on them, then you should check out the site...These are the topics:
1. The Music of Primes: The Riemann Hypothesis
2. The Fields We Are Made Of: Yang - Mills Theory and the Mass Gap Hypothesis
3. When Computers Fail: The P vs. NP Problem
4. Making Waves: The Navier-Stokes Equations
5. The Mathematics of Smooth Behavior: The Poincare Conjecture
6. Knowing When Equation Can't Be Solved: The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
7. Geometry Without Pictures: The Hodge Conjecture
I have seen some of these when I was in college, back then... it's always complicated stuffs. Of course, I wish there were some books that can explain complicated items in a very simple way... but in order to understand complicated stuffs, and make it simple, we should go through a process of learning of complicated things, then we will understand what and how is simple.
People nowadays don't like to think, that's the problem why a lot of us actually take life for granted. Brains are not being used often... make me worry if human will be like those in Wall-E!
Anyway, hope some of you will enjoy the problems...
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