Famous Conjectures
- The P versus NP problem
- Beal's conjecture
- The Poincaré theorem (proven by Grigori Perelman)
- Goldbach's conjecture
- The Riemann hypothesis
- The Collatz conjecture
- The Maldacena conjecture
The Langlands program is a far-reaching web of these ideas of 'unifying conjectures' that link different subfields of mathematics, e.g. number theory and representation theory of Lie groups; some of these conjectures have since been proved.
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