List of Unsolved Problems in Mathematics - Problems Solved Recently

Problems Solved Recently

  • Gromov's problem on distortion of knots (John Pardon, 2011)
  • Circular law (Terence Tao and Van H. Vu, 2010)
  • Hirsch conjecture (Francisco Santos Leal, 2010)
  • Serre's modularity conjecture (Chandrashekhar Khare and Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, 2008)
  • Heterogeneous tiling conjecture (squaring the plane) (Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle, 2007)
  • Road coloring conjecture (Avraham Trahtman, 2007)
  • The Angel problem (Various independent proofs, 2006)
  • The Langlands–Shelstad fundamental lemma (Ngô Bảo Châu and Gérard Laumon, 2004)
  • Stanley–Wilf conjecture (Gábor Tardos and Adam Marcus, 2004)
  • Green–Tao theorem (Ben J. Green and Terence Tao, 2004)
  • Cameron–Erdős conjecture (Ben J. Green, 2003, Alexander Sapozhenko, 2003, conjectured by Paul)
  • Strong perfect graph conjecture (Maria Chudnovsky, Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas, 2002)
  • Poincaré conjecture (Grigori Perelman, 2002)
  • Catalan's conjecture (Preda Mihăilescu, 2002)
  • Kato's conjecture (Auscher, Hofmann, Lacey, McIntosh, and Tchamitchian, 2001)
  • The Langlands correspondence for function fields (Laurent Lafforgue, 1999)
  • Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (Wiles, Breuil, Conrad, Diamond, and Taylor, 1999)
  • Kepler conjecture (Thomas Hales, 1998)
  • Milnor conjecture (Vladimir Voevodsky, 1996)
  • Fermat's Last Theorem (Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor, 1995)
  • Bieberbach conjecture (Louis de Branges, 1985)
  • Princess and monster game (Shmuel Gal, 1979)
  • Four color theorem (Appel and Haken, 1977)

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