[gosub100]

Not really, the incentives for each are not binary values. There are bounties on the 10 millennium problems (that haven't been increased in 25 years), but there isn't much motivation beyond that. You get some street cred and your name in a prestigious journal. That's not-nothing but can't hold a candle to the potential fortunes of the market.

[rheniumclass]

> There are bounties on the 10 millennium problems (that haven't been increased in 25 years) ...

Strictly speaking, if you constructively prove P=NP and the solver has reasonable time complexity, e.g. quadratic, it could make you incredibly rich. If you don't attract the wrong kind of attention from the world's intelligence agencies first...

[mathisfun123]

i think you have no idea what you're saying...

> That's not-nothing but can't hold a candle to the potential fortunes of the market.

a market is where things are sold and bought. there are lots of markets which aren't as well capitalized as financial markets - your local farmer's market doesn't "hold a candle to the potential fortunes of the market" but it's still a market (and presumably the efficient market hypothesis still applies).