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Mathematical Problems

Chapter 1: MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS
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A systematic collection of fundamental open problems is presented to chart directions for future mathematical research. Topics range across set theory, the consistency of arithmetic, geometry, transformation groups, number theory, algebraic forms, analysis, the calculus of variations, and the mathematical formulation of physical axioms. Challenges highlighted include questions about the continuum, irrationality and transcendence, the distribution and properties of primes, reciprocity laws, solvability of Diophantine equations, uniformization and boundary-value problems, and the finiteness or structure of function systems. Each problem is posed to emphasize its technical difficulty and its capacity to stimulate new methods and broader theoretical development.

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Title: Mathematical Problems

Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900

Author: David Hilbert

Translator: Mary Frances Winston Newson

Release date: September 15, 2023 [eBook #71655]

Language: English

Original publication: Lancaster & New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902

Credits: Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

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BULLETIN OF THE
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

CONTINUATION OF THE BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK
MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY.

A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL REVIEW
OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

EDITED BY F.N. COLE, ALEXANDER ZIWET, F. MORLEY,
E.O. LOVETT, C.L. BOUTON,
D.E. SMITH.

VOL. VIII.

OCTOBER 1901 TO JULY 1902.

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY
BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY,
LANCASTER, PA., AND NEW YORK,
1902.

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS