<h5>The Millennium Prize math challenges.</h5><p>Mathematics is like a superpower. It helps us do everything from counting the chocolates in a box to calculating how long it will take for a rocket to reach the moon.</p><p>Math has many problems to solve. Some problems are easy, while others are so challenging they can make us feel like tearing our hair out. The Millenium Prize Problems are some of the toughest.</p><p>These seven unsolved mathematical problems were established by the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 2000. Each problem is extremely difficult, and solving even one of them comes with a prize.</p><p>So far, one of the seven problems has been solved, and mathematicians are making progress on another—the Riemann Hypothesis.</p><h5>What’s the Riemann Hypothesis?</h5><p>You learnt in your math class that prime numbers are special because they can only be divided by 1 and themselves. The Riemann Hypothesis is a famous question in number theory related to prime numbers.</p><p>Picture throwing a bunch of marbles on the floor. They scatter around randomly, right? Similarly, prime numbers seem to be scattered randomly among natural numbers without a clear order.</p><figure class="image"><img alt="prime-numbers.jpg" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/newsahoot.appspot.com/prime_numbers_b9275bf05c.jpg"><figcaption>Prime numbers between 1 to 100. Photo by Career Power.</figcaption></figure><p>In some places, there are many prime numbers close together, while in other places, there are very few. Mathematicians are curious about how these prime numbers are scattered and whether there’s a hidden pattern to their arrangement.</p><p>Theorists have been trying to figure out the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 &nbsp;years. Figuring out the Riemann Hypothesis can answer this question.</p><h5>Why Is It Important to solve the Riemann Hypothesis?</h5><p>To understand this, we need to understand the importance of prime numbers.</p><p>Just like how Lego bricks can be used to build different structures, prime numbers are the building blocks of all other numbers. You can create all other numbers using prime numbers using mathematical operations. Also, any number can be broken down into prime numbers.</p><p>Here’s how:<br>If you take three prime numbers, like 2, 3, and 5, and multiply them, you get 30 (2 x 3 x 5 = 30).<br>12 can be broken down into 2 x 2 x 3 (all of these are prime numbers).</p><p>Thus, solving the Riemann Hypothesis would give mathematicians better tools to solve other problems. It’s like finding a secret code that makes many other difficult problems easier to understand and solve.</p><h5>Has it been solved?</h5><p>No, not yet. This mathematical problem is very complex, and mathematicians have been trying to solve it for ages.</p><p>However, two mathematicians, Larry Guth and James Maynard, have made a breakthrough in this problem that might help solve it.</p><p>Yet, the Riemann Hypothesis is a tough nut to crack, and solving it might take longer. But, whoever solves it first will win a prize of 1 million dollars (Rs 8,34,88,400).</p>

The complex math problem, named the Riemann Hypothesis, deals with prime numbers.

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