Prize status records whether a conjecture carries a formal reward for solving it. Wikipedia notes "the Clay Mathematics Institute, having included the Poincare conjecture in their well-known Millennium Prize Problem list, offered Perelman their prize of US$1 million in 2010," which he then declined. This dimension separates conjectures with a standing prize from those pursued for reputation alone.
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1. Algebraic Geometry (Wikipedia)
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The French mathematicians Franciscus Vieta and later René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat revolutionized the conventional way of thinking about construction problems through the introduction of coordinate geometry.
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