Comments on: Polymath paper published

By: gowers

gowers — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:10:38 +0000

It’s available free on the arXiv if you’re interested in reading it.

By: Umar

Umar — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:38:21 +0000

It feels paradoxical that people collaborated online to do it and then,,, it ends up behind a paywall.

By: coreybrady

coreybrady — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:05:13 +0000

Thanks – that’s very helpful, particularly if the next Polymath project is in fact reviving the EDP project.

By: Jason Dyer

Jason Dyer — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:53 +0000

Since the EDP is a reboot of a previous Polymath, you can read quite a bit of detail on the wiki. If you for some reason need a "popular" article to show around about the EDP project, I wrote one an ACM magazine.

By: coreybrady

coreybrady — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:57:28 +0000

Congratulations!

Regarding future Polymath activity — I am very interested in participating, along with my daughter who is a budding mathematician. However, because I am no longer professionally focused on mathematics as a researcher, I would need to put in a good bit of time to get prepared for a polymath burst. The same would probably be true of my daughter and, I suspect, many others.

I know that there has been some reflection on how to widen participation in massively collaborative mathematics — Do you have any advice on how to prepare-to-be-useful?

I feel it would be worth quite a bit of effort to have the experience of making a true contribution to a Polymath project and participating in a new, collective way of doing mathematics. I imagine many people would feel similarly.

Thanks for any thoughts on the subject…

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By: alsablo

alsablo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:25:54 +0000

Brilliant, thank you, for saying and for doing what is necessary.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:34:32 +0000

Works such as these, represent the dawning of a new way of doing math like the other big science branch like LHC in physic. Thanks for your efforts I will try to go throught the paper to understand this results

By: Nilima

Nilima — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:31:27 +0000

Open access publishing is becoming a critical necessity. Harvard’s librarians are signalling the financial unsustainability of the current modes of scholarship:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448