Who wants to be a millionaire?

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Some­times win­ning $1,000,000 is sim­ple. You can scratch a tick­et, or beat the sta­tis­ti­cal odds of a lot­tery draw­ing, or earn a spot on Who Wants to be a Mil­lion­aire? Easy, right?! A not so easy way to win $1,000,000 is to solve one of the six remain­ing Mil­len­ni­um Prob­lems. It used to be sev­en prob­lems until Math­e­mati­cian Grig­ori Perelman

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The Poincare Conjecture and Father’s Day

The Poincare Conjecture and Father’s Day

My love for math began when I was about sev­en. From ele­men­tary school through high school, on some morn­ings I would find a math puz­zle next to my cere­al bowl. My dad, before he would go to work, would write down a puz­zle and set it next to my break­fast set­ting. When I worked with him at Sund­strand Avi­a­tion after

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