Clay Mathematics Institute
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The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a foundation established in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with the goal of advancing and spreading mathematical knowledge. CMI is renowned for designating seven "Millennium Problems," each carrying a million-dollar reward for its solution.1
These seven problems are:
* The Riemann hypothesis
* The P versus NP problem
* The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
* The Hodge conjecture
* The Navier-Stokes equation
* Yang-Mills theory
* The Poincaré conjecture
Of these, the Poincaré conjecture was proven by Grigori Perelman, who was awarded a Fields Medal and offered the Millennium Prize, both of which he declined.12
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