> Ignoring the drama
But the drama here is a little important. Stealing the millennium prize for N-S is sort of a big deal, especially to those who had been working on it for the last few years.
But the drama here is a little important. Stealing the millennium prize for N-S is sort of a big deal, especially to those who had been working on it for the last few years.
Particularly if the first proof being "solved" thanks to piles of money and compute for self-serving marketing discourages the mathematician who might have otherwise devoted years of focus to reach the superior proof we will now never see.
As a concrete example, such a proof could be less than a page with very specific initial and boundary conditions and inserting them into the equations to get something that goes to infinity when time goes to some finite value.
This would resolve the Millenium problem but not make humanity any smarter.
I don't think everyone agree with your notion that the language and tools of mathematics aren't human inventions.
So if math is all that matters to you, you should care about this.