Comment by thayne
9 hours ago
I think you are interpreting 2 as offering some large amount of money as a prize for discovering a solution. But I think it was meant more as funding a team of mathematicians to work on the problem.
9 hours ago
I think you are interpreting 2 as offering some large amount of money as a prize for discovering a solution. But I think it was meant more as funding a team of mathematicians to work on the problem.
Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for clarifying!
If you want to draw from history there are multiple successful examples of this in science and engineering at least: Bletchley Park, the Manhattan Project, Moon Landings.