Hilbert's problems are 23 problems in mathematics published by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900. They were all unsolved at the time, and several proved to be very influential for 20th-century mathematics. Hilbert presented ten of the problems (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 19, 21, and 22) at the Paris conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians, speaking on August 8 at the Sorbonne. The complete list of 23 problems was published later, in English translation in 1902 by Mary Frances Winston Newson in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.[1] Earlier publications (in the original German) appeared in Archiv der Mathematik und Physik.[2]
- ^ Hilbert, David (1902). "Mathematical Problems". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 8 (10): 437–479. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1902-00923-3.
- ^ Hilbert, David (1900). "Mathematische Probleme". Göttinger Nachrichten: 253–297. and Hilbert, David (1901). "[no title cited]". Archiv der Mathematik und Physik. 3. 1: 44–63, 213–237.