Nature article on Polymath
Timothy Gowers and Michael Nielsen have written an article “Massively collaborative mathematics“, focusing primarily on the first Polymath project, for the October issue of Nature.
View ArticleMini-polymath proposal: IMO 2010 Q6
I am proposing the sixth question for the 2010 International Mathematical Olympiad (traditionally, the trickiest of the six problems) as a mini-polymath project for next month. Details and discussions...
View ArticlePolymath3 (polynomial Hirsch conjecture) now officially open
After some discussion and a lengthy hiatus, the Polymath3 project (on attacking the polynomial Hirsch conjecture via combinatorial means) has officially started with a new research thread on Gil...
View ArticlePolymath4: Referee report obtained
An update on the status of the Polymath4 paper on finding primes. I’ve received a referee report from Mathematics of Computation on the submission, which can be found here. The referee liked the...
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Polymath8 – A Success !
The main objectives of the polymath8 project, initiated by Terry Tao back in June, were “to understand the recent breakthrough paper of Yitang Zhang establishing an infinite number of prime gaps...
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Polymath10 is now open
Polymath10 has started on my blog. The aim is to prove the Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture (also known as the delta-system conjecture). Here is the wikipage.
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Explaining Polynomials Identities – Success!
Dinesh Thakur David Speyer A beautiful polymath proposal by Dinesh Thakur was posted by...
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Polymath Proposals on Math Overflow
Here is the link to a mathoverflow question asking for polymath proposals. There are some very interesting proposals. I am quite curious to see some proposals in applied mathematics, and various...
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Polymath 11 is Now Open
Two great Peter Frankls Tim Gowers launched polymath 11 aimed at Peter Frankl’s conjecture asserting that for every union-closed family there is an element that belongs to at lease half the sets...
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