Re: Navier-Stokes Millenium Problem


Christina Sormani wrote:
Does anyone know the history of the Navier-Stokes Millenium Problem? There is a description at the Clay
Math Institute, but it doesn't mention the key difficulties
or who has attempted it in the past. I figured with the recent Nature Article and retraction that people might be interested in past attempts.


This is a good question, and I hope at least one expert answers it. As
far as I know, there is no "program" for how to solve this problem,
unlike the Poincare conjecture for which there seemed to be many. If I'm
wrong about this, I would love to hear more.

A very interesting essay on this problem can be found at

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~const/2k.pdf

.