Clay Mathematics Institute

High school (ages 12+)
Mathematics & Numbers

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/clay-mathematics-institute

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1. What is the organizational structure?Private, non-profit foundation
2. What is the year of establishment?1998
3. Where is the Clay Mathematics Institute located?Its main office is in Denver, Colorado, but its science leaders work from Oxford, United Kingdom.
4. Why does the Clay Mathematics Institute give out a $1 million prize?It offers the prize for solving one of seven very hard math problems called the Millennium Prize Problems, to encourage new discoveries.

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