Short news in Nature says there is a claim for one of the Millennial Clay Problems
Possible exact solution to the Navier-Stokes equations by Penny Smith a Lehigh University.
That would be a serious achievement if it holds up to review.
Be interesting to code it up and see if it is stable as well as being a solution.
PS Summary by Christina Sormani at CUNY
More on Good Math, Bad Math - as he says, it could be useful.
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A few months ago, I wrote about the Poincare conjecture, and the fact that it appeared to finally have been solved by a reclusive russian mathematician named Grisha Perelman. Now there's news that *another* classic problem may have been solved. This time, it's the Navier-Stokes equation,…
On October 2, Nature published this news brief about a claim of a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations:
A buzz is building that one of mathematics' greatest unsolved problems may have fallen.
Blogs and online discussion groups are spreading news of a paper posted to an online preprint server on…
There's bad news on the math front. Penny Smith has *withdrawn* her Navier Stokes paper, because of the discovery of a serious error.
But to be optimistic for a moment, this doesn't mean that there's nothing there. Remember that when Andrew Wiles first showed his proof of Fermat's last theorem,…
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The claim is for an *existence* proof, not for the construction of a solution.
You probably know it already, but if you don't, see my blog - the paper is withdrawn. Best, Lubos
Well, once you have an existence proof the rest is just engineering.
I only just heard the paper is withdrawn. Too bad, I was looking forward to reading it...