section_path: Awards and prize problems
section_name: Awards and prize problems
paragraph_text: Awards and prize problems
  
  The most prestigious award in mathematics is the Fields Medal, established in 1936 and awarded every four years (except around World War II) to up to four individuals. It is considered the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
  
  Other prestigious mathematics awards include:
  
  A famous list of 23 open problems, called " Hilbert's problems ", was compiled in 1900 by German mathematician David Hilbert. This list has achieved great celebrity among mathematicians, and at least thirteen of the problems (depending how some are interpreted) have been solved.
  
  A new list of seven important problems, titled the " Millennium Prize Problems ", was published in 2000. Only one of them, the Riemann hypothesis, duplicates one of Hilbert's problems. A solution to any of these problems carries a 1 million dollar reward. To date, only one of these problems, the Poincaré conjecture, has been solved by the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman.