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http://news.yahoo.com/kazakh-mathematician-claims-solved-enormously-231058131.html

 

Guess I'll have to google the internet in order to find out what is the actual claim of that Kazakh scientist. The journalist who wrote the article evidently didn't understand it or wasn't able to explain it. Though one cannot say he didn't try.

 

daiquiri, please post any clearer findings you come across.

 

The New Scientist does a better job in explaining the facts: http://www.newscientist.com/article...ave-solved-1-million-puzzle.html#.UuLjFNIuLs0
This is the paper published in the Mathematical Journal (the Russian one - good luck with reading it!): http://www.math.kz/images/journal/2013-4/Otelbaev_N-S_21_12_2013.pdf
and it addresses the following problem (good luck with this one too! ): http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/navierstokes.pdf

 

Just to clarify:
The news article says that the scientist claims to have "solved" the Navier Stokes equations. Nonsense. He only claims to have proven that smooth or non-singular solutions exist -- very big difference.

 

Much, much better article than the first one linked. Thanks for sharing!

 

Description of the "Navier-Stokes" Millenium Problem is at http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/navierstokes.pdf
It is for the 3D, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the problem being to "prove" one of four statements concerning existence and smoothness or break-down of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.

Proving one of the statements will probably not have any immediate benefits for actually solving Navier-Stokes equations for arbitrary geometry. However, it may provide insight into the behavior of some solution methods.