1997
DOI: 10.1515/dmvm-1997-0304
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Paul Wolfskehl und der Wolfskehl-Preis

Abstract: Am 27. Juni 1997 verlieh die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen den Wolfskehl-Preis anANDREW J. WILES für die Lösung des Permatschen Problems. Die Laudatio wurde von HANS GRAUERT, dem Altpräsidenten der Akademie, gehalten 1 , und den Festvortrag "Über das Fermatsche Problem, die Vermutung von Taniyama und den Satz von Wiles" hielt GERRARD FREY. Über diesen Preis und seinen Stifter PAUL WOLFSKERL ist -auch von respektablen Autoren -so viel Unsinn geschrieben und von anderen unbesehen abgeschrieben worden,… Show more

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“…According to the terms of his will, 100,000 marks were set aside to the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Conditions for the prize were established and published in 1908, and there was a closing date of almost a century [2].…”
Section: Hilbert's Problems and The Millennium Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…According to the terms of his will, 100,000 marks were set aside to the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Conditions for the prize were established and published in 1908, and there was a closing date of almost a century [2].…”
Section: Hilbert's Problems and The Millennium Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is the Poincaré hypothesis, which was proven in 2003 by the mathematician Grigori Perelman (Leningrad, 1966) who, incidentally, rejected the cash prize. 2 It is worth mentioning that the Clay Mathematics Institute, founded in 1998, is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. For each one of the Millennium Problems, the institute had professional mathematicians in charge of it.…”
Section: Hilbert's Problems and The Millennium Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is well known that the famous prize of 100 thousand marks for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, arranged by P. Wolfskehl in January 1905 (the conditions for this prize were published in 1908) [22], resulted in a horrible avalanche of absurd 'proofs' as well as in the widespread idea that Fermat's Last Theorem is the central question of all mathematics. The latter opinion seems to have been very popular among laymen until now, even after the Wolfskehl Prize was conferred on A. Wiles in 1997.…”
Section: The Genrementioning
confidence: 99%
“…There have been even more lucrative prize funds. At the time of its endowment, the purchasing power of the most famous of all mathematical prizes, the Wolfskehl Prize for the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem, came to about 1.7 million dollars (as measured in 1997 currency) [1]. These sums for abstract problems stack up very well against the £20,000 reward (worth more than three million dollars in today's currency) that the Parliament of England established in 1714 for the invention of the marine chronometer, an instrument of incalculable commercial and lifesaving importance.…”
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“…Using the Wolfskehl Prize as an example, Barner has convincingly argued that a conspicuous prize can play an important role in registering mathematics on the public's radar screen [1]. The question is, now that the initial buzz has died down, will the Millennium Prize Problems retain an interest outside the professional community?…”
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