7 Millennium Prize problems

Christopher Milton cmiltonperl at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 12 18:25:17 EST 2004


Or maybe Cryptol with P-logic/Programmatica.

--- Christopher Milton <cmiltonperl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Keith Wansbrough <Keith.Wansbrough at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Christopher Milton <cmiltonperl at yahoo.com> writes:
> > > I think  Haskell can be used to solve several, if not all, of
> > > the seven problems.
> > > 
> > > Now I have to decide which problem to tackle first.
> > 
> > (a joke, I assume...)
> > 
> > http://www.claymath.org/Millennium_Prize_Problems/
> > 
> > 1. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
> > 2. Hodge Conjecture
> > 3. Navier-Stokes Equations
> > 4. P vs NP
> > 5. Poincare Conjecture
> > 6. Riemann Hypothesis
> > 7. Yang-Mills Theory
> > 
> > Any ideas how to solve any of these, with Haskell or otherwise?
> 
> I was thinking of combining one of the algebra libraries with a theorem
> prover, and maybe a refactoring tool, then plugging in some of the
> equations to see what happens, e.g.:
> 
> James J. Leifer: "Formal logic via functional programming"
> http://para.inria.fr/~leifer/research.html
> http://para.inria.fr/~leifer/articles/logic/LogicviaFP.300.ps.gz
> http://para.inria.fr/~leifer/articles/logic/LogicviaFP.gs
> 
> Serge Mechveliani: "DoCon the Algebraic Domain Constructor"
> http://www.haskell.org/docon/
> 
> Jeroen Fokker: "Explaining algebraic theory with functional programs"
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/jeroen/article/algebra/index.html
> 
> Refactoring Functional Programs
> http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/refactor-fp/
> 
> Yes, it's crazy and naive, but I need to give my brain some exercise.




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