Originally Posted by adultmobile

A million is quite nice. Most math prizes are just few $100's or max $3000 each:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/66...netary-rewards

Wolfram alpha does not solve it, so perhaps no one in GFY will give an answer:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Beal's+conjecture

I see very little progress on slashdot trolling too:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13...eal-conjecture.

The fact is, real mathematicians are like Grigori Perelman: won a million dollar for solving a conjecture, and did not wanted to take the money or even the medal, he kept living with mom in a small russian apartment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman