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What Genius Looks Like

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In the year 2000, the Clay Institute of Mathematics selected seven yet-unsolved “Millennium Prize” problems as the most important in mathematics, offering a million-dollar cash prize for each correct solution. The first verified solution, which was for the Poincuré conjecture in 2006, shocked the academic world and created one of the most infamous New Yorker cartoons of the past century. None of the remaining problems have been solved––or even credibly attempted––until now. On February 14th, 2023, at the age of eighty-eight, American mathematician James Glimm released what he believes is a solution to a second. For the past seven years, Glimm has dedicated himself to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the first steps to cracking the mystery of turbulence. The Navier-Stokes equations are a series of partial differential equations that have been used to describe the motion of fluid since the mid-1800s, but no one has ever proven that they always have smooth soluti

Ren Spears/James Glimm at home in his New York apartment In the year 2000, the Clay Institute of Mathematics selected seven yet-unsolved “Millennium Prize” problems as the most important in mathematics, offering a million-dollar cash prize for each correct solution. The first verified solution, which was for the Poincaré conjecture in 2006, shocked the academic world and created one of the most infamous New Yorker cartoons of the past century. None of the remaining problems have been solved––or even credibly attempted––until now. On February 14th, 2023, at the age of eighty-eight, American mat

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