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Subject: sci.math FAQ: Which are the 23 Hilbert Problems?

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               Which are the 23 Hilbert Problems?


                                       
   The original was published in German in a couple of places. A
   translation was published by the AMS in 1902.
   
   This article has been reprinted in 1976 by the American Mathematical
   Society (see references).
   
   The AMS Symposium mentioned at the end contains a series of papers on
   the then-current state of most of the Problems, as well as the
   problems.
   
   The URL contains the list of problems, and their current status:
   
   http://www.astro.virginia.edu/ eww6n/math/Hilbert'sProblems.html
   
   Mathematical Developments Arising from Hilbert Problems, volume 28 of
   Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, pages 1--34, Providence,
   Rhode Island. American Mathematical Society, 1976.
   
   D. Hilbert. Mathematical problems. Lecture delivered before the
   International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900. Bulletin of
   the American Mathematical Society, 8:437--479, 1902.
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Alex Lopez-Ortiz                                           alopez-o@unb.ca
http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o                    Assistant Professor	
Faculty of Computer Science                    University of New Brunswick