The millennium problems is something done by a single institute to motivate progress on known open problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
The millennium problems is something done by a single institute to motivate progress on known open problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
Yes, but why?
Because the mathematicians consulted 25 or so years ago believed their solutions would lead to the greatest amount of interesting new maths to explore, and because they had been validated as being hard by being attempted and not solved for a long time.