P is not equal to NP

My friend Joachim Strömbergson posted on his blog today that there is an article on arxiv.org by the Swedish researcher Sten-Åke Tärnlund claiming that P != NP!

If this proof is correct it will have a huge impact on mathematics and some cryptographic algorithms. This proof is considered so important that the Clay Mathematics Institute has named it a Millennium Prize Problem and offered a $1 million USD price for the first correct proof.

This is big and there will be some interesting weeks ahead to see if the proof stands up to a peer review!

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October 29, 2008

Good resource on modern physics

The other day i found a nice resource on modern physics. It is the perimeter institute, PI (By the way for a while ago it was a rumours that Stephen Hawking was considering joining them.) who has published a series of introductions to their different research fields.

So if you have even the slightest interest in Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information or Particle Physics check these tutorials out. They are informative and also very up to date. And if you want to study any of the fields in detail they link to a lot of lectures in the end of each tutorial.

If you have pointers to more good lectures like this, please tell me about them in the comment field below.