Math for Fun and (Small) Profit: An Eclectic Tour of Prize Problems in Mathematics

Authors

Katherine St. John, City University of New York

Document Type

Presentation Abstract

Presentation Date

9-23-2013

Abstract

Many open problems in mathematics have small monetary or consumable prizes associated with them. The Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős was known for this tradition, with prizes ranging from $25 to many thousands. In honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth (26 March 1913), we will survey some of the prize problems including some from Erdős and the million dollar Millennium Prize Problems from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The second half of the talk will focus on prize problems at the intersection of biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics.

Additional Details

Monday, September 23 at 3:10 p.m. in Math 103

Recommended Citation

St. John, Katherine, "Math for Fun and (Small) Profit: An Eclectic Tour of Prize Problems in Mathematics" (2013). Colloquia of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. 435.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathcolloquia/435