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March 2010
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angle trisection

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One million dollars is waiting to be won by anyone who can solve one of the grand mathematical challenges of the 21st century. In the second of two articles, Chris Budd looks at the well-posedness of the Navier-Stokes equations.

Tags: aerodynamics : navier-stokes equations : Fermat's Last Theorem : mathematical modelling : fluid mechanics : Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems : circle-squaring : angle trisection : doubling cube : hilbert problems


Tags: proof : trigonometry : angle trisection : Wantzel's Lemma : cubic equations