Home›Number Theory›Posed ByBrowse ByPosed ByPosed by names the mathematician who first stated a conjecture. Wikipedia notes the Poincare conjecture was "originally conjectured by Henri Poincare in 1904," nearly a century before anyone managed to prove it. This dimension connects a conjecture back to the person who first put it into words.FactsPosed BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1800 BCE 1Posed ByFilter Results38 entriesResolution StatusAllOpen (36)Partially Resolved (3)Proven (1)BranchAllAlgebraic K-Theory (1)Algebraic Number Theory (2)Analysis (4)Analytic Number Theory (1)Combinatorics (1)Number Theory (36)Prize StatusAllMillennium Prize Problem (5)No Prize Offered (34)Personally-Funded Prize (1)Prize Offered, Unclaimed (2)ProposedAll1742 (1)1808 (1)1849 (2)1859 (1)1877 (1)1895 (1)1904 (1)1907 (1)1917 (1)1927 (1)1936 (1)1937 (1)1948 (2)1957 (2)1960 (2)1962 (4)1965 (2)1966 (1)1968 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1981 (1)1982 (1)1985 (2)1993 (1)2002 (1)Resolved YearAll1971 (1)2011 (1)2023 (1)Major PrizeAllAbel Prize (2)Fields Medal (2)Wolf Prize (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAdrien-Marie LegendrePosed By1 entryAlphonse de PolignacPosed By2 entriesAndrew BealPosed By2 entriesAndrzej SchinzelPosed By1 entryAtle SelbergPosed By1 entryBernhard RiemannPosed By1 entryBryan BirchPosed By2 entriesCarl Friedrich GaussPosed By1 entryChristian GoldbachPosed By1 entryDavid MasserPosed By1 entryDerrick Henry LehmerPosed By1 entryEmil ArtinPosed By1 entryÉmile LemoinePosed By1 entryErnst G. StrausPosed By1 entryErnst KummerPosed By1 entryFarideh FiroozbakhtPosed By1 entryHarald CramérPosed By1 entryHarold StarkPosed By1 entryHeini HalberstamPosed By1 entryHeinrich-Wolfgang LeopoldtPosed By1 entryHenri BrocardPosed By1 entryHugh MontgomeryPosed By1 entryJean-Pierre SerrePosed By1 entryJohn TatePosed By2 entriesJoseph OesterlePosed By1 entryLothar CollatzPosed By1 entryLucien SzpiroPosed By1 entryLudvig OppermannPosed By1 entryManindra AgrawalPosed By1 entryPaul ErdosPosed By2 entriesPaul T. BatemanPosed By1 entryPeter Swinnerton-DyerPosed By1 entryRené GoormaghtighPosed By1 entryRobert CarmichaelPosed By1 entrySerge LangPosed By1 entryTheodor SchneiderPosed By1 entryWalter FeitPosed By1 entryWalter RudinPosed By1 entrySources1. Number Theory (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationHistory sectionQuote, History sectionThe earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is the Plimpton 322, dated c. 1800 BC.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.