Andrew Beal is a Texas banker that is aiming to solve a math
question, and he’s willing to shell out a million dollars to do so.
The man worth $8 billion is willing to reward anyone that
can solve a math problem that he’s tried to solve since 1993.
The American Mathematical Society announced the reward for
the Beal Conjecture, which is related to Fermat’s Last Theorem.
The Beal Prize Fund is held as a restricted asset of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), with US$1,000,000 to be awarded if, in the judgment of the BPC, the conjecture is proved or a counterexample is presented.
The math problem he aims to solve is as follows:
If Ax + By
= Cz, where A, B, C, x, y and z are positive integers and x, y and z
are all greater than 2, then A, B and C must have a common prime factor.
Anyone interested in finding
out more on the conditions of winning the prize may click here.
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