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 https://polymathprojects.wordpress.com/feed/rss/.
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[…] to solve the problem, pitch in and help over at the Polymath blog. But please be polite: read some background first, and take a look at some of the research threads to get a feel for how things work, and […]
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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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[…] has combined volunteering, the internet and mobile phones to pioneer a new form of activism to the Polymath project, launched by the Cambridge University mathematician Tim Gowers, to allow mathematicians to work […]
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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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Personally I think governments suhold fund a mechanism to pay a fixed (low) fee for article processing in Open Access journals for any work meeting a certain (low) quality threshold and is wholly or partly public funded. Alternatively they suhold set up a no-frills journal/repository which fulfils this function. It suhold allow text figures to be formatted based on markup code similar to wikipedia. Tools for automatic content- and social recommendations and post-publication review and commentary suhold be developed. We suhold move away from journal impact factors and directly measure the readership, citation and peer-recommendations of individual articles. Government has the resources to do this and the motivation, since it is largely government money which is subsidising the publisher’s huge profits at the moment.Any commercial journal which can survive the competition (e.g., by offering greater impact, selectivity, better peer review, better search/recommendation) would be free to charge subscriptions and limit access as market conditions dictate. The bulk of commercial journals are unlikely to survive since they fail to add sufficient value to the articles. Research funders suhold also consider charging commercial publishers for the raw material they currently provide for free.
Comment by Lhya — May 31, 2012 @ 12:15 am |
[…] One of the projects that Nielsen is involved in is the Polymath projects. […]
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[…] success is in this arena is rare (the Polymath Project is a notable exception), but the right tools are emerging and the culture towards using them is […]
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“Proposals on WordPress” in http://polymathprojects.org sidebar links to http://en.wordpress.com/#!/read/topic/polymath-proposals
Unfortunately now at this URL there is only one proposal (by Terrence Tao), all other proposals have disappeared.
Comment by porton — July 27, 2013 @ 9:43 pm |
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[…] individuale come la matematica si sta arrendendo alla collaborazione, come è avvenuto nel progetto Polymath di Tim Gowers. Tuttavia, continua Highfield, il cinema ci insegna che le persone si identificano […]
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[…] publish the ongoing Elements of Mathematics series, which has 11 volumes published over 70 years. The Polymath project, which crowdsources solutions to mathematical problems, has also published some of its papers […]
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In some reason, at https://wordpress.com/tag/polymath-proposals I see just one polymath proposal (by Gil Kalai). Why?
Comment by porton — March 27, 2020 @ 12:36 pm |
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