Talk:Unsolved problems in mathematics
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Can't we move Poincaré Conjecture to solved problems, since it was even awarded the Fields Medal? Ricbit 20:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
For the lay reader, its useful to distinguish these from problems known to be impossible of solution, e.g. squaring the circle. And Gödel's incompleteness theorem is similarly worth mentioning.
Here are some more external links to unsolved problems pages. I'm not really sure about external link etiquette. Some of these reference each other. I've just picked out some of the most interesting. Let me know what you think about adding these links to the article. --noösfractal 07:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
- MathWorld page on the topic - also references a number of books.
- Listing of pages in MathWorld's unsolved problems category
- Math/Research/Open_Problems/ at the Open Directory Project - with subsections on open problems in analysis, combinatorics, dynaical systems, geometry, graph theory, number theory and topology.
- The Open Problems Project at Smith
- Kirby's famous 360 page list of open problems in Topology
- Archive of the Open Problems column of the SIAM Newsletter
- Kimberling's open problems with rewards
- More open problems with rewards
[edit] Categories
The list is starting to get long, so I tried to break it up into general categories. I did this pretty quickly; I'd like to have someone else look this over before converting these from comments to subheadings. In particular:
- Are the problems in the right categories?
- Is there a better grouping for the problems in "Other"?
- What do you think of my division of number theory? I have it in three parts: primes, additive number theory, and general number theory.
- Should any of the current categories be divided or subsumed into others? I don't think I broke it down too small, but perhaps combinatorics or Ramsey theory could be combined somewhere. In the other direction, number theory could perhaps be split further.
Any thoughts or comments (even "looks fine") would be appreciated. CRGreathouse (t | c) 02:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
