The Israeli who solved a 200-year-old math equation
Institute offers $1 million for solving ‘millennium’ problems
Are viscous fluids always smooth in three dimensions? The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the so called “Millenium Problems,” the seven most complex mathematical problems yet to be proven according to the Clay Mathematics Institute.
But Dr. Gal Davidi, an Israeli mathematician with a PhD in aerospace engineering, and his partner Svetlin Georgiev believe they have found the solution, according to an official press release.
“Davidi and his partner Georgiev solved the problem and offered a way to prove the solution of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations problem,” Pedro Morais, a mathematician from Portugal, said.
With 20 years of experience in aerospace engineering, Davidi, 47, founded six start-up companies in the field and is currently CEO of one of them. He received his doctorate from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and his post doctorate from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
His partner Georgiev from Bulgaria is a well-known mathematician who has written several books on calculus and fractional dynamics in time scales.
Davidi has been working on the Navier-Stokes problem since 2008. Named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, it describes the motion of viscous substances.
Such equations have many applications for engineering and are widely used in calculating everything from aerodynamics of airplane wings to sea flow. However, since their discovery 200 years ago, no one has been able to prove that they are always correct in three dimensions. Until now.
With the possibility of winning $1,000,000 from the institute for solving one of its millennium problems,” Davidi and Georgiev invite mathematicians around the globe to read their proof and attempt to refute or affirm it. If approved, they will have made mathematical history.