[FartyMcFarter]

> somebody else will get the prize?

> Mathematics should be about collaborative understanding of the universe

If you really think mathematics should be about collaboration and not competition, why do you worry about who gets the prize?

You should pick what's more important to you - if it's collaboration, why not publish the steps you've accomplished? If someone else uses it to achieve a full solution, you'll still have a claim to part of the credit towards the solution.

[js8]

Because I am also a human. I think I could still use the money (if anything, very few people want to be principled idiots who refuse $1m), and if I spent several years determined to understand it, perhaps it's worth spending some more to understand it fully. As I explained, it creates an atmosphere that prevents collaboration - it's incredibly hard to find anyone to talk about the problem with. Anyway, I am writing about my approach here, and I am about to write about it more. Still, people dismiss it outright.