Rota’s Basis Conjecture: Polymath 12, post 3
We haven’t quite hit the 100-comment mark on the second Polymath 12 blog post, but this seems like a good moment to take stock. The project has lost some of its initial momentum, perhaps because other...
View ArticleNon-transitive Dice over Gowers’s Blog
A polymath-style project on non transitive dice (Wikipedea) is now running over Gowers blog. (Here is the link to the first post.)
View ArticlePolymath 13 – a success!
This post is to note that the polymath13 project has successfully settled one of the major objective. Reports on it can be found on Gower’s blog especially in this post Intransitive dice IV: first...
View ArticleSpontaneous Polymath 14 – A success!
This post is to report an unplanned polymath project, now called polymath 14 that took place over Terry Tao’s blog. A problem was posed by Apoorva Khare was presented and discussed and openly and...
View ArticleA new polymath proposal (related to the Riemann Hypothesis) over Tao’s blog
(From a post “the music of the primes” by Marcus du Sautoy.) A new polymath proposal over Terry Tao’s blog who wrote: “Building on the interest expressed in the comments to this previous post, I am...
View ArticlePolymath proposal: finding simpler unit distance graphs of chromatic number 5
The Hadwiger-Nelson problem is that of determining the chromatic number of the plane (), defined as the minimum number of colours that can be assigned to the points of the plane so as to prevent any...
View ArticleUpdates 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...
View ArticleTen 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...
View ArticleA sort of Polymath on a famous MathOverflow problem
Is there any polynomials of two variables with rational coefficients, such that the map is a bijection? This is a famous 9-years old open question on MathOverflow. Terry Tao initiated a sort of...
View ArticlePolymath projects 2021
After the success of Polymath1 and the launching of Polymath3 and Polymath4, Tim Gowers wrote a blog post “Possible future Polymath projects” for planning the next polymath project on his blog. The...
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