Sentence examples for most famous problem from inspiring English sources
The CH is the most famous problem of set theory.
The most famous problem is the problem of equivalence.
The story of the most famous problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem, has all the ingredients of a real-life treasure hunt: a cryptic note left behind by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat; a sizable reward offered by a German physician in his 1906 will; finally, a solution found in 1994 by the reserved Princeton University mathematician, Andrew Wiles.
Perelman, by casually posting a proof on the Internet of one of the most famous problems in mathematics, was not just flouting academic convention but taking a considerable risk.
For example, in one of the American composer Sam Loyd's most famous problems (see the composition), the surprise is that White's b-pawn, which appears to be an innocuous bystander on the second rank, advances five times and delivers mate.
John L. Casti, a science writer who teaches at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, has been accused of lifting a substantial number of extended passages from other sources in his latest book, "Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time" (Oxford, 2001).
The most famous problems in NP are called "NP-complete".
The most famous such problem, Fermat's last theorem, was postulated in the 17th century.
For three and a half centuries, it defeated all who attacked it, earning a reputation as the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics.
He then moved into noncommutative geometry, where he has created new tools for theoretical physics, as well as for probing math's most famous unsolved problem: the Riemann hypothesis (Science, 26 May 2000, p. 1328).
