The Clay Institute (Cambridge-USA) is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating knowledge of mathematics. It was founded in 1998 by London T. Clay, wealthy businessman and his wife Lavinia D. Clay. The mathematician Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University, was its first president.
Foundation scholarships and awards to promising mathematicians, but if anything is known is the proposition in 2000 of the Millennium Problems . By analogy with Hilbert's problems, which were set in 1900 by Hilbert himself and whose treatment and resolution (most of them) gave a great impetus to the twentieth century mathematics, the Clay Institute brought together physicists and mathematicians brightest in the world to develop a list of seven problems to do the same with the XXI century. The difference with the "altruistic" Hilbert problems?: The resolution of each one of them will lead to "win" a million dollars!.
Among them was proposed Conjecture Poincaré, the Hodge Conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis among others. The first was settled by Russian indifference Gregori Perelman left speechless but more than one, relinquished the prize.
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