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Atlas of Conjectures

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Antiquity

Solvedc. 430 BC

Doubling the cube (Delian problem)

Greek geometers · Athens, Greece

Solvedc. 430 BC

Angle trisection

Greek geometers · Athens, Greece

Solvedc. 430 BC

Squaring the circle

Anaxagoras, Hippocrates of Chios and others · Athens, Greece

Solvedc. 300 BC

The fifth postulate (parallel postulate)

Euclid · Alexandria, Egypt

Openc. 300 BC

Do odd perfect numbers exist?

Euclid / Nicomachus · Alexandria, Egypt

Solvedc. 300 AD

Honeycomb conjecture

Pappus of Alexandria · Alexandria, Egypt

Middle Ages

Openc. 950

Congruent number problem

Al-Karaji (and Arab mathematicians) · Baghdad, present-day Iraq

17th century

Solved1611

Kepler conjecture (sphere packing)

Johannes Kepler · Prague (imperial court of Rudolf II)

Solvedc. 1637

Fermat's Last Theorem

Pierre de Fermat · Toulouse, France

Solvedc. 1638

Fermat polygonal number theorem

Pierre de Fermat · Toulouse, France

Disprovedc. 1640

Primality of Fermat numbers

Pierre de Fermat · Toulouse, France

Open1644

Infinitude of Mersenne primes

Marin Mersenne · Paris, France

Open1694

Kissing number problem

Isaac Newton and David Gregory · Cambridge, England

18th century

Open1742

Goldbach's conjecture

Christian Goldbach · Moscow, Russia

Solved1742

Weak (ternary) Goldbach conjecture

Christian Goldbach · Moscow, Russia

Disproved1769

Euler's sum of powers conjecture

Leonhard Euler · Saint Petersburg, Russia

Solved1770

Waring's problem

Edward Waring · Cambridge, England

Openc. 1770

Perfect cuboid conjecture (Euler brick)

Leonhard Euler · Saint Petersburg, Russia

19th century

Solved1801

Gauss class number problem

Carl Friedrich Gauss · Brunswick, Germany

Solved1808

Prime number theorem

A.-M. Legendre and C. F. Gauss · Paris, France

Openc. 1808

Legendre's conjecture

Adrien-Marie Legendre · Paris, France

Openc. 1825

Infinitude of Sophie Germain primes

Sophie Germain · Paris, France

Openc. 1834

Gauss circle problem

Carl Friedrich Gauss · Göttingen, Germany

Solved1844

Catalan's conjecture

Eugène Catalan · Paris, France

Solved1845

Bertrand's postulate

Joseph Bertrand · Paris, France

Open1849

Twin prime conjecture (de Polignac's conjecture)

Alphonse de Polignac · Paris, France

Open1849

Dirichlet divisor problem

Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet · Berlin, Germany

Solved1852

Four color conjecture

Francis Guthrie · London (University College London)

Open1857

Bunyakovsky conjecture

Viktor Bunyakovsky · Saint Petersburg, Russia

Open1859

Riemann hypothesis

Bernhard Riemann · Göttingen, Germany

Open1859

Generalized Riemann hypothesis (GRH)

Bernhard Riemann · Göttingen, Germany

Open1876

Brocard's problem

Henri Brocard · Algiers, Algeria

Solved1876-1885

Tait conjectures (alternating knots)

Peter Guthrie Tait · Edinburgh, Scotland

Undecidable1878

Continuum hypothesis

Georg Cantor · Halle, Germany

Open1882

Oppermann's conjecture

Ludvig Oppermann · Copenhagen, Denmark

Disproved1887

Kelvin problem (optimal foam)

William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) · Glasgow, United Kingdom

Open1888

Catalan–Dickson conjecture (aliquot sequences)

Eugène Catalan · Liège, Belgium

Openc. 1892

Inverse Galois problem

David Hilbert · Göttingen, Germany

Open1894

Lemoine's conjecture

Émile Lemoine · Quimper, France

Disproved1897

Mertens conjecture

Franz Mertens · Vienna, Austria

Solved1897

Painlevé conjecture

Paul Painlevé · Stockholm, Sweden

Undecidable1900

Hilbert's tenth problem

David Hilbert · Paris, France

Solved1900

Hilbert's third problem

David Hilbert · Paris, France

Open1900

Hilbert's sixteenth problem (limit cycles)

David Hilbert · Paris, France

Open1900

No-three-in-line problem

Henry Dudeney · London, England

20th century

Disproved1902

General Burnside problem (periodic groups)

William Burnside · Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

Solved1904

Poincaré conjecture

Henri Poincaré · Paris, France

Open1904

Thomson problem (charges on a sphere)

J. J. Thomson · Cambridge, England

Solved1907

Denjoy conjecture

Arnaud Denjoy · Paris, France

Open1907

Carmichael's totient function conjecture

Robert Carmichael · Hartselle, Alabama, United States

Open1908

Lindelöf hypothesis

Ernst Lindelöf · Helsinki, Finland

Disproved1908

Hauptvermutung of topology

Ernst Steinitz and Heinrich Tietze · Vienna, Austria

Solved1908

Torsion conjecture (elliptic curves)

Beppo Levi · Turin, Italy

Open1909

Infinitude of Wieferich primes

Arthur Wieferich · Münster, Germany

Open1910

Unknotting problem

Max Dehn · Göttingen, Germany

Solved1911

Burnside's conjecture (odd order)

William Burnside · London (Royal Naval College, Greenwich)

Open1911

Inscribed square problem (Toeplitz)

Otto Toeplitz · Göttingen, Germany

Openc. 1912

Hilbert–Pólya conjecture

David Hilbert and George Pólya · Göttingen, Germany

Open1914

Lebesgue's universal covering problem

Henri Lebesgue · Paris, France

Solved1916

Bieberbach conjecture

Ludwig Bieberbach · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Solved1916

Ramanujan conjecture

Srinivasa Ramanujan · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Open1917

Kakeya conjecture

Sōichi Kakeya · Sendai, Japan

Open1917

Goormaghtigh conjecture

René Goormaghtigh · Ostend, Belgium

Solved1918

Classification of convex pentagonal tilings

Karl Reinhardt · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Disproved1919

Pólya conjecture

George Pólya · Zurich, Switzerland

Open1919

Vandiver's conjecture

Harry Vandiver · Ithaca, New York, United States

Undecidable1920

Suslin's hypothesis

Mikhail Suslin · Moscow, Russia

Openc. 1920

Carathéodory conjecture

Constantin Carathéodory · Munich, Germany

Solved1922

Mordell conjecture

Louis Mordell · Manchester, England

Open1923

Hardy–Littlewood conjectures (prime k-tuples)

G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood · Oxford, United Kingdom

Open1923

Second Hardy–Littlewood conjecture

G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood · Cambridge, England

Open1927

Artin's conjecture on primitive roots

Emil Artin · Hamburg, Germany

Open1927

Birkhoff conjecture (billiards)

George David Birkhoff · Overisel, Michigan, United States

Undecidable1928

Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem)

David Hilbert · Göttingen, Germany

Disproved1929

Von Neumann conjecture

John von Neumann · Berlin, Germany

Solved1929

Oppenheim conjecture

Alexander Oppenheim · Salford, England

Disproved1930

Keller's conjecture

Ott-Heinrich Keller · Berlin, Germany

Openc. 1930

Littlewood conjecture

John Edensor Littlewood · Cambridge, England

Openc. 1930

Hilbert–Smith conjecture

David Hilbert and Paul Althaus Smith · Göttingen, Germany

Open1930

Köthe conjecture

Gottfried Köthe · Münster, Germany

Solved1931

Hopf invariant one problem

Heinz Hopf · Zurich, Switzerland

Open1931

Pillai's conjecture

Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai · Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Openc. 1931

Hopf conjecture on positive curvature (S²×S²)

Heinz Hopf · Zurich, Switzerland

Solved1932

Erdős discrepancy problem

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Disproved1932

Borsuk's conjecture

Karol Borsuk · Warsaw, Poland

Open1932

Lehmer's totient problem

Derrick Henry Lehmer · Stanford, California, United States

Openc. 1932

Hopf conjecture (Euler characteristic and positive curvature)

Heinz Hopf · Zurich, Switzerland

Open1933

Lehmer's Mahler measure problem

Derrick Henry Lehmer · Princeton, United States

Open1930s

Invariant subspace problem

John von Neumann · Princeton, United States

Open1935

Happy ending problem (Erdős–Szekeres)

Esther Klein, Paul Erdős and George Szekeres · Budapest, Hungary

Open1936

Cramér's conjecture

Harald Cramér · Stockholm, Sweden

Open1936

Bochner–Riesz conjecture

Salomon Bochner · Princeton, United States

Open1936

Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions

Paul Erdős · Manchester, England

Open1937

Collatz conjecture

Lothar Collatz · Berlin, Germany

Open1937

Scholz conjecture (addition chains)

Arnold Scholz · Berlin, Germany

Open1938

Waring–Goldbach problem

Ivan Vinogradov and Hua Luogeng · Velikiye Luki, Russia

Solved1939

Smith conjecture

Paul A. Smith · New York, United States

Open1939

Jacobian conjecture

Ott-Heinrich Keller · Berlin, Germany

Open1939

Mahler conjecture

Kurt Mahler · Manchester, United Kingdom

Solved1941

Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture

Richard J. Duffin and Albert C. Schaeffer · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Open1941

Reconstruction conjecture

Stanislaw Ulam and Paul Kelly · Madison, United States

Open1941

Whitehead asphericity conjecture

J. H. C. Whitehead · Oxford, United Kingdom

Open1941

Erdős–Turán conjecture on additive bases

Paul Erdős and Pál Turán · Budapest, Hungary

Open1943

Hadwiger conjecture

Hugo Hadwiger · Bern, Switzerland

Open1945

Erdős–Ulam problem (points at rational distances)

Paul Erdős and Stanisław Ulam · Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

Open1946

Erdős unit distance problem

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Solved1946

Erdős distinct distances problem

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Open1947

Lehmer's tau conjecture

Derrick Henry Lehmer · Berkeley, California, United States

Open1947

Growth of diagonal Ramsey numbers

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Open1948

Erdős–Straus conjecture

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Solved1949

Weil conjectures

André Weil · Chicago, United States

Open1950

Hodge conjecture

William Hodge · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Disproved1950

Seifert conjecture

Herbert Seifert · Heidelberg, Germany

Open1950

Hadwiger–Nelson problem

Edward Nelson and Hugo Hadwiger · Chicago, United States

Open1950

Giuga's conjecture

Giuseppe Giuga · Rome, Italy

Openc. 1950

Kaplansky's conjectures on group rings

Irving Kaplansky · Chicago, United States

Undecidablec. 1950

Whitehead problem

J. H. C. Whitehead · Oxford, United Kingdom

Solved1951

Ore conjecture

Øystein Ore · New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Open1953

Borel conjecture

Armand Borel · Princeton, United States

Open1953

Erdős–Moser conjecture

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Solved1954

Calabi conjecture

Eugenio Calabi · Amsterdam, Netherlands

Open1954

Tutte's 5-flow conjecture

William Thomas Tutte · Toronto, Canada

Open1954

Zarankiewicz crossing number conjecture

Kazimierz Zarankiewicz · Warsaw, Poland

Solved1955

Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (modularity)

Yutaka Taniyama · Tokyo, Japan

Solved1955

Brauer's height zero conjecture

Richard Brauer · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1955

Chern conjecture (flat affine manifolds)

Shiing-Shen Chern · Chicago, United States

Open1954–1955

Kneser–Poulsen conjecture

Martin Kneser and Ernst Poulsen · Berlin, Germany

Open1956

Jacobson's conjecture

Nathan Jacobson · New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Disproved1957

Hirsch conjecture

Warren M. Hirsch · New York, United States

Solved1957

Strengthened Hanna Neumann conjecture

Hanna Neumann · Hull, United Kingdom

Open1957

Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture

Samuel Eilenberg and Tudor Ganea · New York, United States

Open1958

Gilbreath's conjecture

Norman Gilbreath · Los Angeles, United States

Open1958

Schinzel's hypothesis H

Andrzej Schinzel · Warsaw, Poland

Open1958

Nakayama conjecture (representation theory)

Tadasi Nakayama · Nagoya, Japan

Open1959

Sendov's conjecture

Blagovest Sendov · Sofia, Bulgaria

Solved1959

Kadison–Singer problem

Richard Kadison and Isadore Singer · New York, United States

Open1959

Nagata's conjecture

Masayoshi Nagata · Kyoto, Japan

Solvedc. 1960

Sato–Tate conjecture

Mikio Sato and John Tate · Tokyo, Japan

Solved1960

Kervaire invariant problem

Michel Kervaire · New York, United States

Openc. 1960

Schanuel's conjecture

Stephen Schanuel · New York, United States

Open1960

Sierpiński problem

Wacław Sierpiński · Warsaw, Poland

Openc. 1960

Lang's conjectures

Serge Lang · New York, United States

Open1960

Sunflower conjecture

Paul Erdős and Richard Rado · Budapest, Hungary

Open1960

Wall–Sun–Sun primes (Fibonacci–Wieferich)

Donald Dines Wall · United States

Solved1961

Generalized Poincaré conjecture

Stephen Smale · Berkeley, United States

Solved1961

Strong perfect graph conjecture

Claude Berge · Paris, France

Solved1961

Aperiodic monotile problem (the “hat” / einstein)

David Smith, J. S. Myers, C. S. Kaplan and C. Goodman-Strauss · Bridlington, United Kingdom

Open1961

Vaught conjecture

Robert Lawson Vaught · Berkeley, United States

Solved1961

Kato square root problem

Tosio Kato · Berkeley, California, United States

Solved1962

Vector fields on spheres problem

Frank Adams · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Open1962

Slice-ribbon conjecture

Ralph Fox · Princeton, United States

Open1962

Leopoldt's conjecture

Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt · Erlangen, Germany

Open1962

Bateman–Horn conjecture

Paul Bateman and Roger Horn · Urbana, Illinois, United States

Open1962

Gaussian moat problem

Basil Gordon · Los Angeles, United States

Open1962

Erdős–Sós conjecture

Paul Erdős and Vera Sós · Budapest, Hungary

Open1962

Feit–Thompson conjecture

Walter Feit and John Thompson · Vienna, Austria

Solved1963

Ringel's conjecture

Gerhard Ringel · Berlin, Germany

Open1963

Tate conjecture

John Tate · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1964

Zeeman conjecture (collapsibility)

Christopher Zeeman · Coventry, United Kingdom

Open1964

Edge reconstruction conjecture

Frank Harary · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Open1965

Novikov conjecture

Sergei Novikov · Moscow, Russia

Openc. 1965

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Bryan Birch and Peter Swinnerton-Dyer · Cambridge, England

Openc. 1965

Chowla conjecture

Sarvadaman Chowla · University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Solved1965

Willmore conjecture

Thomas Willmore · Durham, United Kingdom

Open1965

Andrews–Curtis conjecture

James Andrews and Morton Curtis · Houston, United States

Open1965

Arnold conjecture (symplectic topology)

Vladimir Arnold · Moscow, Russia

Open1965

Total coloring conjecture

Mehdi Behzad and Vadim G. Vizing · East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Open1965

Wall's D2 problem

C. T. C. Wall · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Open1965

Zariski–Lipman conjecture

Oscar Zariski and Joseph Lipman · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Disproved1966

Hedetniemi's conjecture

Stephen Hedetniemi · Ann Arbor, United States

Open1966

Moving sofa problem

Leo Moser · Edmonton, Canada

Openc. 1966

Birch–Tate conjecture

Bryan Birch and John Tate · Oxford, England

Open1966

Moser's worm problem

Leo Moser · Edmonton, Canada

Open1967

Lonely runner conjecture

Jörg Wills · Berlin, Germany

Open1967

Langlands program

Robert Langlands · Princeton, United States

Open1967

Ryser's conjecture

Herbert Ryser · Pasadena, United States

Open1967

Graceful tree conjecture (Kotzig–Ringel–Rosa)

Gerhard Ringel and Anton Kotzig · Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Open1967

Stein's restriction conjecture

Elias M. Stein · Princeton, United States

Open1967

Ryser–Brualdi–Stein conjecture

Herbert Ryser, Richard Brualdi and Sherman Stein · Pasadena, United States

Solved1967

Oberwolfach problem

Gerhard Ringel · Oberwolfach, Germany

Open1968

Elliott–Halberstam conjecture

Peter D. T. A. Elliott and Heini Halberstam · Nottingham, England

Open1968-1969

Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles

Alexander Grothendieck · Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Open1968

Dixmier conjecture

Jacques Dixmier · Paris, France

Solved1968

Virtually Haken conjecture

Friedhelm Waldhausen · Bielefeld, Germany

Solved1968

Surface subgroup conjecture

Friedhelm Waldhausen · Bielefeld, Germany

Open1968

Vizing's conjecture (domination)

Vadim G. Vizing · Novosibirsk, Russia

Open1969

Grimm's conjecture

Carl Albert Grimm · Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Solvedc. 1969

Main conjecture of Iwasawa theory

Kenkichi Iwasawa · Princeton, United States

Open1969

Lovász conjecture

László Lovász · Budapest, Hungary

Open1969

Barnette's conjecture

David Barnette · Davis, United States

Open1969

Cosmic censorship hypothesis

Roger Penrose · London, United Kingdom

Solved1970

Milnor conjecture

John Milnor · Princeton, United States

Solvedc. 1970

Optimal sphere packing in dimensions 8 and 24

Classical problem (optimality of E8 and Leech) · Berlin, Germany

Undecidablec. 1970

Singular cardinals hypothesis (SCH)

Set theory · Berkeley, United States

Solved1970

Rota's conjecture on matroids

Gian-Carlo Rota · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Solved1970

Ehrenpreis conjecture

Leon Ehrenpreis · New York, United States

Solvedc. 1970

Is the Conway knot slice?

John Horton Conway · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Solvedc. 1970

Erdős sumset conjecture

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Open1971

P versus NP

Stephen Cook · Toronto, Canada

Open1971

Hall's conjecture

Marshall Hall Jr. · Pasadena, California, United States

Open1971

Singmaster's conjecture

David Singmaster · London, United Kingdom

Open1971

Berge–Fulkerson conjecture

Delbert Ray Fulkerson · Ithaca, United States

Solved1971

McKay conjecture

John McKay · Montreal, Canada

Open1971–1980

Stark conjectures

Harold Stark · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Solved1972

Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture

Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Solvedc. 1972

Property P for knots

Classical problem (popularized by R. H. Bing) · Madison, United States

Solvedc. 1972

Gaussian correlation inequality

Olive Jean Dunn · Los Angeles, United States

Open1972

Chvátal's conjecture on intersecting families

Václav Chvátal · Columbus, Ohio, United States

Open1972

Tutte's 3-flow conjecture

William Tutte · Waterloo, Canada

Solved1972

Classification of finite simple groups

Daniel Gorenstein, Richard Brauer, Michael Aschbacher and others · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Open1973

Cycle double cover conjecture

Paul Seymour and George Szekeres · Sydney, Australia

Open1973

Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture

Hugh Montgomery · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Open1973

Chvátal's toughness conjecture

Václav Chvátal · Montreal, Canada

Solved1973

Burr–Erdős conjecture

Stefan Burr and Paul Erdős · Budapest, Hungary

Openc. 1974

Bombieri–Lang conjecture

Enrico Bombieri and Serge Lang · Pisa, Italy

Open1974

Fuglede's conjecture (spectral sets)

Bent Fuglede · Copenhagen, Denmark

Solved1974

Tameness conjecture

Albert Marden · Minneapolis, United States

Open1974

Herzog–Schönheim conjecture

Marcel Herzog and Jochanan Schönheim · Tel Aviv, Israel

Openc. 1975

List edge-coloring conjecture

Vadim G. Vizing and others · Odesa, Ukraine

Open1975

Auslander–Reiten conjecture

Maurice Auslander and Idun Reiten · Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Open1975

Dürer's conjecture (unfolding polyhedra)

Albrecht Dürer and Geoffrey C. Shephard · Norwich, England

Disproved1976

Atiyah conjecture (L² Betti numbers)

Michael Atiyah · Oxford, United Kingdom

Disproved1976

Connes embedding problem

Alain Connes · Paris, France

Openc. 1976

Bass–Quillen conjecture

Hyman Bass and Daniel Quillen · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1976

Greenberg's conjecture

Ralph Greenberg · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Solved1977

Kelmans–Seymour conjecture

Paul Seymour (and, independently, Alexander Kelmans) · Oxford, United Kingdom

Open1977

Erdős–Hajnal conjecture

Paul Erdős and András Hajnal · Budapest, Hungary

Solved1977

Inscribed rectangle problem (rectangular peg)

Herbert Vaughan · Urbana, United States

Open1977

Berry–Tabor conjecture

Michael Berry and Michael Tabor · Bristol, England

Open1978

Caccetta–Häggkvist conjecture

Louis Caccetta and Roland Häggkvist · Perth, Australia

Solved1978

Weinstein conjecture

Alan Weinstein · Berkeley, United States

Solved1978

Dinitz problem

Jeff Dinitz · Columbus, United States

Openc. 1978

Kobon triangle problem

Kobon Fujimura · Tokyo, Japan

Open1978

Shelah's PCF conjecture

Saharon Shelah · Jerusalem, Israel

Open1979

Union-closed sets conjecture (Frankl)

Péter Frankl · Paris, France

Open1979

Goldfeld's conjecture (rank of elliptic curves)

Dorian Goldfeld · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1979

Deligne's conjecture on special values of L-functions

Pierre Deligne · Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Solved1979

Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures

David Kazhdan and George Lusztig · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1979

Cherlin–Zilber conjecture

Gregory Cherlin and Boris Zilber · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Solved1979

Monstrous moonshine

John Conway and Simon Norton · Cambridge, England

Solved1979

Fundamental lemma (Langlands program)

Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad · Princeton, United States

Open1980

Fortune's conjecture (fortunate numbers)

Reo Fortune · Cambridge, England

Solvedc. 1980

Boolean Pythagorean triples problem

Ronald Graham · Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States

Open1981

Szpiro's conjecture

Lucien Szpiro · Paris, France

Open1981

Gyárfás–Sumner conjecture

András Gyárfás and David Sumner · Budapest, Hungary

Open1981

Smale's mean value conjecture

Stephen Smale · Berkeley, United States

Solved1981

Alspach's conjecture (cycle decompositions)

Brian Alspach · Burnaby, Canada

Open1981

Tuza's conjecture

Zsolt Tuza · Budapest, Hungary

Solved1982

Geometrization conjecture

William Thurston · Princeton, United States

Open1982

Firoozbakht's conjecture

Farideh Firoozbakht · Isfahan, Iran

Open1982

Baum–Connes conjecture

Paul Baum and Alain Connes · Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Solved1982

Yau's conjecture on minimal surfaces

Shing-Tung Yau · Princeton, United States

Solved1982

Ending lamination theorem

William Thurston · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Open1982

Local connectivity of the Mandelbrot set (MLC)

Adrien Douady and John Hubbard · Orsay, France

Open1983

Section conjecture (anabelian geometry)

Alexander Grothendieck · Montpellier, France

Solved1983

Zimmer's conjecture

Robert Zimmer · Chicago, United States

Disproved1984

Telescope conjecture

Douglas Ravenel · Seattle, Washington, United States

Open1985

abc conjecture

David Masser and Joseph Oesterlé · Paris, France

Open1985

Falconer's conjecture

Kenneth Falconer · Bristol, United Kingdom

Open1985

Fujita conjecture

Takao Fujita · Tokyo, Japan

Open1985

Beilinson conjectures (special values of L-functions)

Alexander Beilinson · Moscow, Russia

Disproved1985

Bunkbed conjecture

Pieter Kasteleyn · Leiden, Netherlands

Open1985

1-factorization conjecture

Amanda Chetwynd and Anthony Hilton · Reading, United Kingdom

Open1986

Andrica's conjecture

Dorin Andrica · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Open1986

Alperin's weight conjecture

Jonathan Alperin · Chicago, United States

Open1986

Sidorenko's conjecture

Alexander Sidorenko · Moscow, Russia

Openc. 1986

Nearby Lagrangian conjecture

Vladimir Arnold · Moscow, Russia

Solved1987

Serre's modularity conjecture

Jean-Pierre Serre · Paris, France

Open1987

Vojta's conjecture

Paul Vojta · New Haven, United States

Open1988

Log-rank conjecture

László Lovász and Michael Saks · Budapest, Hungary

Open1989

New Mersenne conjecture (Bateman–Selfridge–Wagstaff)

Paul T. Bateman, John Selfridge and Samuel Wagstaff · Urbana, Illinois, United States

Open1989

Rota's basis conjecture

Gian-Carlo Rota · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open1990

Bloch–Kato conjecture (Tamagawa numbers)

Spencer Bloch and Kazuya Kato · Chicago, United States

Open1990

Second neighborhood conjecture

Paul Seymour · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Openc. 1990

Berge conjecture (knots and Dehn surgery)

John Berge · United States

Openc. 1990

Superpermutations (minimal length)

Classical combinatorics problem · United States

Solved1991

Double bubble conjecture

Classical problem (3D statement by J. Foisy) · Williamstown, United States

Solved1992

Sensitivity conjecture

Noam Nisan and Mario Szegedy · Jerusalem, Israel

Open1993

Beal conjecture

Andrew Beal · Dallas, United States

Open1993

Farrell–Jones conjecture

F. Thomas Farrell and Lowell E. Jones · Binghamton, United States

Open1994

Cannon's conjecture

James W. Cannon · Provo, United States

Open1995

Fermat–Catalan conjecture

Henri Darmon and Andrew Granville · Athens, Georgia, United States

Solved1989–1995

André–Oort conjecture

Yves André and Frans Oort · Paris, France

Open1995

Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture

Paul Erdős and András Gyárfás · Budapest, Hungary

Open1995

Fontaine–Mazur conjecture

Jean-Marc Fontaine and Barry Mazur · Paris, France

Solved1995

Cobordism hypothesis

John C. Baez and James Dolan · Riverside, California, United States

Open1996

HRT conjecture (linear independence of time-frequency translates)

Christopher Heil, Jayakumar Ramanathan and Pankaj Topiwala · Atlanta, United States

Solved1996

Angel problem

John Horton Conway · Liverpool, England

Open1997

Volume conjecture (knots)

Rinat Kashaev and Hitoshi Murakami · Tokyo, Japan

Open1999

Zauner's conjecture (SIC-POVMs)

Gerhard Zauner · Vienna, Austria

Open2000

Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness

Clay Mathematics Institute · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Open2000

Yang–Mills existence and mass gap

Clay Mathematics Institute · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

21st century

Open2001

Casas-Alvero conjecture

Eduardo Casas-Alvero · Barcelona, Spain

Open2001

Exponential time hypothesis (ETH)

Russell Impagliazzo and Ramamohan Paturi · San Diego, United States

Open2001

Strong exponential time hypothesis (SETH)

Russell Impagliazzo, Ramamohan Paturi and Chris Calabro · San Diego, California, United States

Open2002

Unique games conjecture

Subhash Khot · Princeton, United States

Open2004

Crouzeix's conjecture

Michel Crouzeix · Rennes, France

Solved2004

1-2-3 conjecture

Maciej Karoński, Tomasz Łuczak and Andrew Thomason · Poznań, Poland

Open2005

Zilber–Pink conjecture

Boris Zilber and Richard Pink · Oxford, United Kingdom

Solved2006

Kahn–Kalai conjecture

Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai · Jerusalem, Israel

Open2010

Sarnak's conjecture

Peter Sarnak · Princeton, United States

Disprovedc. 2011

Quadrisecant approximation conjecture

Gyo Taek Jin and Hyoung Seop Kim · Daejeon, South Korea

Solved2013

Bounded gaps between primes

Yitang Zhang · Durham, New Hampshire, United States

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