What did Johann Bernoulli challenge others to solve?
Brachistochrone problem
Fermat's Last Theorem
The four color theorem
Goldbach's conjecture
Answer
The brachistochrone problem, posed by Johann Bernoulli in 1696, challenged mathematicians to find the curve along which a bead would slide under the influence of gravity in the shortest time from one point to another.
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