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Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries
coondoggie writes "Some math problems are as old as the wind, experts say, and many remain truly unsolved. But a new open source-based site from the American Institute of Mathematics looks to help track work done and solve long-standing and difficult math problems. The Institute, along with the National Science Foundation, has opened the AIM Problem Lists site to offer an organized and annotated collection of unsolved problems, and previously unsolved problems, in a specialized area of mathematics research. The problem list provides a snapshot of the current state of research in a particular research area, letting experts track new developments, and newcomers gain a perspective on the subject."
Yes, because it never existed without a known solution. I might solve the problem of global warming by using renewable energy, but that isn't a 'known' solution, it's just one that is (heavily) hypothesized to work. If it were guaranteed that it would be a solution to global warming, and it were something that had been known at least since the creation of the universe, it would have never been a true problem in the universe to begin with, but rather an intricacy of the universe's workings.