Comments on: A combinatorial approach to density Hales-Jewett http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/ Mathematics related discussions Wed, 15 May 2013 08:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: e-Recognition via Friction-free Collaboration over the Internet: “Open Access to Curation of Scientific Research” | Pharmaceutical Intelligence http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-37156 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:19:06 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-37156 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalistTimothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: Polyclimate | Climate Etc. http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-28741 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:06:50 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-28741 [...] The initial proposed problem for this project, now called Polymath1 by the Polymath community, was to find a new combinatorial proof to the density version of the Hales–Jewett theorem.  After 7 weeks, Gowers announced on his blog that the problem was “probably solved”,[5] though work would continue on both Gowers’s thread and Tao’s thread well into May 2009, some three months after the initial announcement. In total over 40 people contributed to the Polymath1 project. Both threads of the Polymath1 project have been successful, producing at least two new papers to be published under the pseudonym D.H.J Polymath. [...]

]]> By: Week 9: Open Science « raveanrant http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-17832 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:03:47 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-17832 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalistTimothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Network Enabled Research: Maximise scale and connectivity, minimise friction http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-15368 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:20:56 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-15368 [...] one that he had an idea how to solve but felt was too challenging to tackle on his own. He then started to hedge his bets, stating: “It is not the case that the aim of the project is [to solve the problem but rather it is to see [...]

]]> By: Science in the Open » Blog Archive http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-15363 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:43:06 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-15363 [...] one that he had an idea how to solve but felt was too challenging to tackle on his own. He then started to hedge his bets, stating: “It is not the case that the aim of the project is [to solve the problem but rather it is to see [...]

]]> By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » Building knowledge in the digital age; the transition continues — science this time. http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14774 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:56:05 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14774 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: Jan 21, 2012 « newswirefeed http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14660 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:14:18 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14660 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration | csid http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14566 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:11:13 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14566 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalistTimothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: Cracking Open the Scientific Process – New York Times http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14549 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:38:45 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14549 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration - NEWS AND ARTICLES – NEWS AND ARTICLES http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14548 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:16:29 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14548 [...] another math examination dubbed a Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on a Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new explanation for a utterly difficult postulate in only 6 [...]

]]> By: Cracking Open the Scientific Process | CATA NEWS http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14546 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:05:40 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14546 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration | CATA NEWS http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14545 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:04:33 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14545 [...] math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six [...]

]]> By: Twitter and the new scholarly ecosystem – Jason Priem http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-14148 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:01:07 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-14148 [...] reference list a new kind of publication). Scholars are flocking to scholarly blogs to post ideas, collaborate with colleagues, and discuss literature, often creating a sort of peer-review after publication. Emboldened by [...]

]]> By: Discovery Science Research Group http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-11777 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:19:53 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-11777 Collaborative Mathematics in the Polymath Project…

As part of my ongoing research to explore models for online collaboration I have recently been reviewing the Polymath project1 which exploits collaborative principals in resolving mathematical problems. The Polymath project created by the British …

]]> By: Open Science | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-10799 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:47:49 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-10799 [...] succeeded, they could publish a paper under a collective pseudonym. He next chose a problem — developing a combinatorial approach to the Hales-Jewett theorem — and, several hundred comments later, announced that they had succeeded. Here’s the [...]

]]> By: Michael Nielsen » Introduction to the Polymath Project and “Density Hales-Jewett and Moser Numbers” http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-7269 Sat, 01 May 2010 16:43:53 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-7269 [...] of the problem to be attacked (see below), a list of rules of collaboration, and a list of 38 brief observations he’d made about the problem, intended to serve as starting inspiration for discussion. At [...]

]]> By: Massively Collaborative Mathematics: lessons from polymath1 « Hypios – Thinking http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-5055 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:32:19 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-5055 [...] version of distributed-computing. With this image of bite-sized mathematics, Gowers launched Polymath1 with these words:  “Here then is the project that I hope it might be possible to [...]

]]> By: Hear Ye! http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-4483 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:32:29 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-4483 [...] Kitchen Sink That Puts Out Fires, Massively Collaborative Mathematics (if only for the novelty of two Fields medallists posting comments on a blog), Social Networks as Foreign Policy. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/ [...]

]]> By: Première démonstration « open source » d’un théorème mathématique « Injazz Consulting's blog http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-4267 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:41:33 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-4267 [...] Solymosi, un mathématicien de l’Université de la Colombie Britannique à Vancouver, fasse le premier commentaire. Quinze minutes après, un nouveau commentaire était posté par Jason Dyer, enseignant dans un [...]

]]> By: Make your voice heard « in theory http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-3943 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:51:21 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-3943 [...] 16, 2009 in math, theory | Tags: circuit lower bounds, polymath You may remember the polymath1 project, in which Tim Gowers envisioned, and realized, a “massively collaborative” [...]

]]> By: Mythematics: a call for participation « Division by Zero http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-3239 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:54:52 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-3239 [...] some high profile mathematicians have been using a blog to conduct a massively collaborative mathematics project. What a brilliant idea that could be done today, with our current [...]

]]> By: A gentle introduction to the Polymath project « The Number Warrior http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-3091 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:40:45 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-3091 [...] that he thought amenable to an online collaborative approach, then kicked things off with a blog post. Six weeks later, the main problem he proposed was declared (essentially) solved. However, the [...]

]]> By: Michael Nielsen » The Polymath project: scope of participation http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-3004 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:29:20 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-3004 [...] an accomplished professional mathematician, initially thought that the chances of success were “substantially less than 100%”, even adopting a quite modest criterion for [...]

]]> By: Beginning of the Rest - Informal Online Research Collaboration http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-2976 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:16 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-2976 [...] Cambridge University, used his blog for an experiment in massive online collaboration for solving a significant problem in math — combinatorial proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem. Some six weeks (and nearly 1000 [...]

]]> By: A quick review of the polymath project « What Is Research? http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/#comment-2280 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:15:48 +0000 http://gowers.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-2280 [...] the next post, Gowers listed his ideas broken down into thirty-eight points. He also clarified the circumstances [...]

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