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Mock-up discussion thread
This is a mockup of what a discussion thread for a polymath project would look like; it would run alongside the research thread, but is focused on strategy, exposition, and discussion by casual...
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Deterministic way to find primes: discussion thread
The proposal “deterministic way to find primes” is not officially a polymath yet, but is beginning to acquire the features of one, as we have already had quite a bit of interesting ideas. So perhaps...
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Draft version of polymath4 paper
I’ve written up a draft version of a short paper giving the results we already have in the finding primes project. The source files for the paper can be found here. The paper is focused on what I...
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Polymath discussion at IAS
In October 2010 there was a discussion about polymath projects at an event organized by the I.A.S in NYC. Tim Gowers described the endeavor and some prospects, and hopes, and Peter Sarnak responded...
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Polymath7 discussion thread
The “Hot spots conjecture” proposal has taken off, with 42 comments as of this time of writing. As such, it is time to take the proposal to the next level, by starting a discussion thread (this one)...
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Two polymath (of a sort) proposed projects
This post is meant to propose and discuss a polymath project and a sort of polymath project. I. A polymath proposal: Convex hulls of real algebraic varieties. One of the interesting questions regarding...
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Updates and Pictures
Three short items: Progress on Rota’s conjecture (polymath12) by Bucić, Kwan, Pokrovskiy, and Sudakov First, there is a remarkable development on Rota’s basis conjecture (Polymath12) described in the...
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Ten Years of Polymath
Ten years ago on January 27, 2009, Polymath1 was proposed by Tim Gowers and was launched on February 1, 2009. The first project was successful and it followed by 15 other formal polymath projects and...
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