Revisiting A Voynich Prize

[Mark Knowles]

Right now, there are already more than a dozen people who are convinced that they have solved it.
A few are writing here.

Do you mean this thread or on this website?

Could the Beinecke be sued for not handing out the prize money?

Of course not. I think what applies to the Voynich also applies to other prizes.

There are prizes in Mathematics for solving particular problems. Just, because someone thinks that they have solved(normally this means proved) the problem doesn't mean they have. I am quite sure that there are plenty of people who have claimed to have solved some of these problems, who haven't. In fact I can recall the article about an academic who has claimed to have proven the Riemann Hypothesis or some other theory, but whose proof has not been accepted by the wider academic community as it is believed to be flawed in some way. If he were(or maybe he has) to sue the organisation (it is a "Millenium Prize" problem) claiming he has proved it then they would face the same problem. So in short other prizes manage to resolve concerns like these, so I don't see how the Voynich would be fundamentally different.

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