>>14172971>How did he do it?He is Jewish, his parents raised him specifically to be a mathematician, he worked alongside the right people at the right time, and he is someone of the disposition that wouldn't want to even claim the prize.
These aspects exclude almost everyone on the planet, but still among the number of people who still fit these criteria, the ones who'll actually solve the millennium problems are even rarer. Assume that you'll die of old age before the next one is solved. Maybe with enough empirical evidence the Yang-Mills will be solved before then.
The problems are highly specific too, which makes them more difficult. For example, the Reimann zeta function zeroes proof requires that you PROVE only zeroes lie on whatever specifications that were put forth. There have been an outrageous number of zeroes found and a very large number of ways that one can find the zeroes, but it's not just that you have to be aware of how to get zeroes there, but you have to prove absolutely and definitively that it's 100% impossible for any function to put anything other than a zero in the parameters--that's exceedingly difficult.
(disclaimer: I'm not that familiar with the RZF so if some of my wording is off it's because I don't feel like reading up on it again to be exact, but I got the idea across)
