The issue of prize money

The problem that payment of the prize money for the resolver was announced in important themes such as the science with the issue of prize money (けんしょうきんもんだい) formally by some kind of organizations or individual.

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Mathematics

Among mathematical unsolved problems, prize money was taken.

Prize money of 1 million dollars is taken by a clay mathematics research institute, and seven following problems are called the issue of millennium prize.

• P ≠ NP expectation
• Hodge expectation
• Poincare expectation (it has been settled)
• Lehman expectation
• Jan - Milnes equation and mass gap problem
• Existence and fluency of the solution of the Navier-Stokes' equation
• BSD expectation

Others

• Problem of コラッツ： Pole エルデシュ (mathematician) of 500 dollars offered a prize.
• The last theorem of Fermat： In 1823, a French scientific academy offered a prize, but the demonstrator did not appear, and Ernst クンマー which I proved when it was restrictive won a gold medal of 3,000 francs in 1850. In 1850, the French scientific academy took a prize again, but there was not the prize winner. In 1908 Paul Wolff scale (capitalist) through German natural science academy Leo Poll Dena of 100,000 marks offered a prize, and, in 1997, Andrew Wiles won it.

Geodesy

• Longitude assay on the sea
  • In 1598, the Spanish king Felipe third performed a prize of live pension of 6000 ダカット, bonus of 2000 ダカット, cost of 1000 ダカット. Researchers of a compass and the geomagnetism were given a restrictive amount of money, but there was not the total amount prize winner.
  • In 1714, I established the longitude method of the effect that British Government "gave prize money of 20,000 pounds for 15,000 pounds, 30 minutes for 10,000 pounds, less than 40 minutes if I measured the longitude of the position of the ship with an error within (60 minutes) once if it was within" (= 1/2 degree). John Harrison produced highly precise clock chronometer H4 in 1760, and I demonstrated it, but it was the slander of the astronomer, and this laboratory finding was not readily accepted, and George III intervened, and at last the total amount was paid in 1773 in 1761 by a voyage experiment.

Code

• Prize money may be taken for decryption to inspect the weakness of the code. The RSA security of the code maker performs this kind of prize many times.

Technology

• An X prize foundation submitted a prize of 10 million dollars to a private manned trajectory space trip (Ansari X Prize), and, in 2004, SpaceShipOne won it.
• As of 2012, I adopt the policy that the U.S. Government encourages invention by prize money [¹].

Supernatural power

• "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" conjurer James Randie suggests it in 1963 and starts. A plan to give the prize money of US $ 1 million for the person who demonstrates genuine supernatural power, and proved it. There is not the person who acquired the prize money without the result that only balances with a condition though a many "pretense" person with supernatural power challenges it in the past appearing.

Medical

• Ernst-Singh£10,000 Homeopathic Challenge

Footnote

1. ^ challenge.gov

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