Just found out Penny Smith withdrew her Immortal Smooth Solution!
Mathematicians and physicists think the breeze and turbulence can be understood via the Navier-Stokes equations governingthe flow of fluids such as water and air. Although first written in the 19th Century, we still don’t get ‘em. There is no proof for the most basic questions one can ask: do solutions exist, and are they unique?
Penny Smith, a mathematician at Lehigh University, posted a paper on the arXiv that purported to solve one of the Clay Foundation Millenium problems, famous problems with a million dollar reward posted by the Clay Institute.
A few months ago, the Poincare conjecture, another one of the Clay problems appeared to have been solved by a reclusive Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman, who refused the prize money. Now, it seems Penny Smith has withdrawn her solution.
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