Selecting another polymath project
In a few months (the tentative target date is October), we plan to launch another polymath project (though there may also be additional projects before this date); however, at this stage, we have not...
View ArticlePolymath on other blogs
There has been some discussion of the polymath enterprise on other blogs, so I thought it would be good to collect these links on the main polymath wiki page. If you find another link about polymath...
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 ArticlePolymath wiki logo
Michael Nielsen has collected a number of possible logos for the polymath wiki and is asking for discussion on them.
View ArticlePolymath proposal: bounded gaps between primes
Two weeks ago, Yitang Zhang announced his result establishing that bounded gaps between primes occur infinitely often, with the explicit upper bound of 70,000,000 given for this gap. Since then there...
View ArticlePolymath proposal: explaining identities for irreducible polynomials
I am posting this proposal on behalf of Dinesh Thakur. Let be the ring of polynomials over the finite field of two elements, and let be the set of irreducible polynomials in this ring. Then infinite...
View ArticleBlog theme changed
Update from Gil: I managed to retrieve rubric but the subtitle disappeared. As you may have noticed, the layout of this blog has changed. I was trying to address a request by one of the commenters...
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