Questions tagged [conjecture]
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What are some of the unsolved mathematical problems posed and stated clearly prior to the year 1900?
I chose year 1900 because of:
"Hilbert's problems are twenty-three problems in mathematics published by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900. The problems were all unsolved at the time, and ...
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When were mathematical conjectures first formulated and communicated?
Today it is common for mathematicians to formulate conjectures and publish/communicate them as a spur toward further research.
An example is Goldbach's conjecture, posed in a letter
from Goldbach to ...
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Mathematicians with a history of conjecturing a lot
Of course, I could ask who conjectured the most, but conjectures can later be shown to be either true or false, so perhaps who has the most unresolved conjectures, in publication? More than that ...
