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P vs NP Most Important Open Math Question?

P vs NP was voted the most important open math question by my senior seminar on “The Big Questions” Math 481, followed by the Riemann Hypothesis, Yang-Mills, and Navier-Stokes. The Poincaré Conjecture, proved by Perelman in 2003, was voted the most important proven theorem. What would you say?

Here are their top ten:

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