P vs NP

https://arbital.com/p/P_vs_NP

by Jaime Sevilla Molina Jun 14 2016 updated Jun 15 2016

Is creativity purely mechanical?


[summary: Are problems with solutions easy to check also easy to solve? ]

The greatest currently open problem in complexity theory and computer science in general, which talks about the relationship between the class of efficiently solvable problems, [ $~$P$~$], and the class of problems with easily checkable solutions, [ $~$NP$~$].

It is a basic result that [ $~$P\subseteq NP$~$]. However, we still do not know whether the reverse implication, $~$P \supseteq NP$~$, holds.

A positive, constructive result would have profound implications through all the fields of science and math, not to mention the whole of society.