American Bank Offers $1M To Anyone Able To
Solve This Mathematical Equation
A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 millionfor
whoever solves a tricky problem that’s been dogging
mathematicians since the 1980s.
The Providence, Rhode Island-based American
Mathematical Society (AMS) on Tuesday said $1
million will be awarded for the publication of a
solution to the Beal Conjecture number theory
problem.
Dallas banker D. Andrew Beal first offered the Beal
Prize in 1997 for $5,000. Over the years, the amount
has grown.
AMS spokesman Michael Breen says a solution is
more difficult than the one for a related problem –
Fermat’s Last Theorem – which didn’t have a
published solution for hundreds of years.
Mr Beal is a self-taught mathematician and founder
of the Beal Prize. He says he wants to inspire young
people to pursue math and science.
An AMS-appointed committee will award this prize
for either a proof of, or a counter example to, the Beal
Conjecture, published in a refereed and respected
mathematics publication.
The prize money is being held in trust by the AMS
until it is awarded. Income from the prize fund is
used to support the annual Erdős Memorial Lecture
and other activities of the Society. According to the
AMS website, the $1million prize will be awarded to
anyone who can solveand fulfill the following: Quote :
If Ax + By = Cz , where A, B, C, x, y and z are
positive integers and x, y and z are all
greater than 2, then A, B and C must have a
common prime factor.
The administration of the Beal Prize is overseen by a
Beal Prize Committee (BPC) to beappointed by the
President of the AMS. The formal charge of the BPC
and the ‘Procedures for Determination of an Award of
the Beal Prize’ are subject to the review and approval
by the Council of the AMS.
The Beal Prize Fund is held as a restricted assetof the
American Mathematical Society (AMS), with US
$1,000,000 to be awarded if, in the judgment of the
BPC, the conjecture is proved or a counterexample is
presented. A proposed solution of the Beal Prize
Problem may not be submitted directly to the AMS,
or to the Beal Prize Committee, or to Mr Beal.
Unpublished manuscripts will not be considered.
The BPC will consider a proposed solution if it is a
complete mathematical solution of the Beal Prize
Problem. Before consideration, a proposed solution
(the ‘Work’) must be published in a refereed
mathematics publication which is respected and, in
the opinion of the BPC, maintains the highest
editorial standards (or published in another form as
the BPC decides may qualify).
In the case of a counterexample, the proposed
solution will be subject to independent verification.
Upon publication, the author(s) of the Work should
notify the AMS and the BPC.
The Work must be widely accepted by the
mathematics community following a two-year
waiting period after publication.
In the case of a counterexample, that recognition and
acceptance by the community may happen much
sooner.
Following the waiting period, the BPC will decide
whether the Work merits detailed evaluation.
If the Work is to receive detailed evaluation, the BPC
and the AMS will identify at least two experts who
can verify the correctness of the Work and who are
not members of the BPC to assist in the evaluation.
Upon completion of the evaluation, if the BPC can
make a clear decision, it may award the prize and
determine attribution of credit for a solution.

is my brother Chike Obi still alive? i need him now.

i am very sure gej can solve dis equation!!!!!

i dey come. I must hammer this weekend.

The equation has been solved already. why look for x,y and z when it's already in the equation? ok lemme ask Oga at the top. that's all!

One thing I love about yankee is how lucrative it is to be good at math (and science/engineering more generally).

The process to win the dough is longer the Maths solution.

I'll get the answer, though the procedure and duration to get to the money is discouraging me.




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Hmm, dis is a very trickish question