Read the article, “Mathematics at the Turn of the Millennium,” by Philip A. Griffiths, The American Mathematical Monthly, January 2000, pp. 1–14. Briefly describe each of these famous problems:

a. Fermat’s last theorem

b. Kepler’s sphere packing conjecture

c. The four-color problem 

Which of these problems are discussed later in this text, and where?

The objective of this article was to communicate something about mathematics to a general audience. How well did it succeed with you Discuss.