{"id":639,"date":"2009-07-28T22:34:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-polymath-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:34:05","slug":"the-polymath-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-polymath-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polymath blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Tim Gowers started a project in <a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/27\/is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible\/\">massively collaborative mathematics<\/a> &#8211; an open approach to solving mathematical problems using blogs and wikis.  The first iteration of this &#8220;Polymath Project&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=584\">very successful<\/a> (see also Terry Tao\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/22\/imo-2009-q6-mini-polymath-project-impressions-reflections-analysis\/#comment-40605\">mini-Polymath<\/a>), and new iterations are now being planned.  To help with that process, <a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/22\/imo-2009-q6-mini-polymath-project-impressions-reflections-analysis\/#comment-40605\">Terry Tao<\/a> has set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/polymathprojects.org\">Polymath blog<\/a>, and there is now a very lively discussion going on about possible problems, including the very interesting problem of finding an efficient deterministic algorithm to generate prime numbers above a specified size.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Tim Gowers started a project in massively collaborative mathematics &#8211; an open approach to solving mathematical problems using blogs and wikis. The first iteration of this &#8220;Polymath Project&#8221; was very successful (see also Terry Tao\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent mini-Polymath), and new iterations are now being planned. To help with that process, Terry Tao has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-polymath-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Polymath blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polymath","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}