What is the Clay Mathematics Institute?
Q: What is the Clay Mathematics Institute?
A: The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge.
Q: Who founded the Clay Mathematics Institute?
A: The Clay Mathematics Institute was founded by Boston businessman Landon T. Clay and his wife, Lavinia D. Clay in 1998.
Q: Who was the first president of the Clay Mathematics Institute?
A: The first president of the Clay Mathematics Institute was Harvard University mathematician Arthur Jaffe.
Q: What is the Millennium Prize Problems?
A: The Millennium Prize Problems is a list of the seven most important unsolved mathematical questions compiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Q: How many of the Millennium Prize Problems have been solved?
A: Only one of the Millennium Prize Problems, the Poincaré conjecture, has been solved.
Q: Does the Clay Mathematics Institute offer sponsorships to mathematicians?
A: Yes, the Clay Mathematics Institute gives out various awards and sponsorships to promising mathematicians.
Q: What are some other activities of the Clay Mathematics Institute?
A: Some other activities of the Clay Mathematics Institute include a postdoctoral program, with support for ten Clay Research Fellows each year, and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.
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