MATHEMATICS IN 21ST CENTURY

MATH DISCOVERIES IN THIS CENTURY

2002-Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal of IIT Kanpur present an unconditional deterministic polynomial time algorithm to determine whether a given number is prime (the AKS primality test),

2002 – Yasumasa Kanada, Y. Ushiro, Hisayasu Kuroda, Makoto Kudoh and a team of nine more compute π to 1241.1 billion digits using a Hitachi 64-node supercomputer,


2002 – Preda Mihăilescu proves Catalan's conjecture,


2003 – Grigori Perelman proves the Poincaré conjecture,


2007 – a team of researchers throughout North America and Europe used networks of computers to map E8.[13]