Win a million dollars with maths  Over the coming months, Matt
Parker will introduce seven of mathematics' most intractable
problems. To win a million dollars, all you have to do is solve
one ... Maths teacher at a blackboard Do the maths and you could
be a dollar millionaire. Photograph: White Packert/Getty   What
they may not know is that there's a maths prize of $1m waiting
to be won. There are six unsolved problems in mathematics that
could each net this sum for someone smart enough to solve them.
Sure, the US dollar is not what it used to be, but £600,000-ish
would ease most people's economic woes.  It may strike many as
odd that there are unfinished bits of mathematics. In school,
maths is presented as a completed textbook that was worked out
hundreds of years ago. The truth is that mathematics is a
constantly developing field: some problems can be solved
comparatively easily while others seem completely resistant to
attack.  One such problem is known as Goldbach's conjecture and
it has confounded mathe