Jun 7, 2013
He dropped out of Baylor University, but Texas billionaire D. Andrew Beal has always been fascinated by numbers and the theories behind them. Now Beal, who, with a net worth of $8 billion ranks 43rd on the Forbes list of U.S. billionaires, is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can solve a math problem — now dubbed the Beal Conjecture — that Beal has been trying to solve since 1993. The long-running reward started at $5,000 in 1997, and bumped up to $100,000 in 2000, where it remained for 13 years. Now the money has hit seven figures….
