Another Millenium Problem May Have Been Solved 134
S3D writes "After recent verification of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, another of the Clay Institute's Millenium Problems may have been solved. This new solution is for Navier-Stokes equations under physically reasonable conditions. Navier-Stocks equations describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. Penny Smith has posted an Arxiv paper entitled 'Immortal Smooth Solution of the Three Space Dimensional Navier-Stokes System' which may prove the existence of such solutions."
Neat indeed (Score:3, Interesting)
Note: Not considering P vs. NP as it is quite possibly unprovable.
Someone had better tell the Formula One teams (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:It's the mathematics of .... (Score:3, Interesting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory [wikipedia.org]
Re:blink blink ! (Score:3, Interesting)
One of the things that I understood was a real problem with NS is that not only were there no existence proofs, but there were no uniqueness proofs. Does nayone know if the uniqueness question has been answered?
Re:Neat indeed (Score:3, Interesting)
An arxiv article does not a headline make (Score:2, Interesting)
As I say, far be it from me to call "crank", but I'd wait for this to appear in a peer-reviewed journal and get responses. I suspect the Millennium (sp!) Prize committee may well be doing likewise.