This group blog, together with its associated wiki, is intended to host “polymath” projects – massively collaborative mathematical research projects. The ground rules for such projects can be found here.
Note that LaTeX is supported in the comments of this blog. Unfortunately, comment editing and preview is not available; you will need to contact a moderator or administrator to fix a comment.
Discussion on the design and format of polymath projects can be made here. Discussion of the rules, organisation, philosophy, and strategy of these projects can be made here. LaTeX questions or sandbox experiments can be made here. Technical blog questions can be made as comments to this page. Any questions, comments, or requests that do not fit anywhere else can go on this page.
If you wish to make your own polymath project proposal, you can either make your own blog post for the proposal (and, if it is a wordpress blog, use the tag or category “polymath proposals” so that it will show up in this list), or to put it on this wiki page. You can also discuss the proposal on this thread.
To follow this blog in a feed aggregator using RSS, use the link http://polymathprojects.wordpress.com/feed/rss/.
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[...] to solve, please start reading here. Coming to think about it, this is basically just another polymath-project. With the only difference that not a lot of people participate Hopefully that’ll change [...]
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[...] The Polymath project, his opening story, is one of the best examples of how and why open science works. Tim Gowers, a Fields medalist, posted a famous mathematical problem on his blog, an open invitation to anyone interested to try their hand at solving it. For the first 70 hours, nothing happened. Then a math professor left a comment, quickly followed by a high school teacher, another Fields medalist and so on. In the span of 37 days, over 800 comments collectively solved the problem. How many conferences and scientific papers, peer reviews boards and editorial revisions would it have taken to even get these diverse minds thinking together in the same space? Nielsen describes it as the difference between “driving and pushing your car”. [...]
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[...] the classic example you use in your talks is the Polymath Project—an experiment in massively collaborative mathematics. Do you see a future for this type of [...]
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[...] and studying the workings and ideas of others would lead to a solution. This experiment was the Polymath project. Michael says that he observed the blog at the time and was amazed by the speed of activity; how [...]
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[...] was solved faster than anyone would have thought possible thanks to what is now known as the Polymath Project, an online collaboration of a large and decentralized group of mathematicians (both professional [...]
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[...] and collectively make easy work of his hard mathematical problem. He dubbed the experiment the Polymath Project. [...]
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[...] a large group of mathematicians, and use that group mind to solve hard problems. Thus was born the Polymath project, chronicled by Michael Nielsen on his blog and in his important new book, Reinventing [...]
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