Polymath8 grant acknowledgments

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Participants should be arranged in alphabetical order of surname.

Polymath8a

Participants and contact information

Caution: this list may be incomplete. Participants who have made significant contributions to the project (on par with a co-author on a traditional mathematical research paper) should add themselves to this list, or email tao@math.ucla.edu if they are unable to do so directly. Participants who have made auxiliary contributions to the project (on par with those mentioned in an Acknowledgments section in a traditional paper) should add themselves instead to the list at the bottom of the page.


  • Wouter Castryck, KU Leuven, [1]
  • Etienne Fouvry, Université Paris-Sud, [2]
  • Gergely Harcos, Rényi Institute, [3]
  • Emmanuel Kowalski, ETHZ, [4]
  • Philippe Michel, EPFL, [5]
  • Paul Nelson, EPFL, [6]
  • Eytan Paldi, Technion Institute
  • Janos Pintz, Rényi Institute, [7]
  • Andrew V. Sutherland, MIT, [8]
  • Terence Tao, UCLA, [9]
  • Xiao-Feng Xie, Carnegie Mellon University, [10]

Grant information

  • Wouter Castryck was supported by FWO-Vlaanderen.
  • Etienne Fouvry was partially supported by the Institut Universitaire de France.
  • Gergely Harcos was supported by OTKA grants K 101855 and K 104183, and by ERC Advanced Grant 228005.
  • Phillipe Michel was partially supported by the grant SNF-137488 and the grant ERC-EQUIARITH AdG- 228304.
  • Paul Nelson is supported by NSF grant OISE-1064866 and partially supported by grant SNF-137488.
  • Janos Pintz was supported by OTKA grants No. K100291, NK104183 and ERC-AdG. 228005.
  • Andrew V. Sutherland was supported by NSF grant DMS-1115455.
  • Terence Tao was supported by a Simons Investigator grant, the James and Carol Collins Chair, the Mathematical Analysis & Application Research Fund Endowment, and by NSF grant DMS-1266164.

Other acknowledgments

Other contributors to the project include Vigleik Angelveit, Ben Green, Scott Morrison, Pace Nielsen, David Savitt, Avishay Tal, Hannes Uppman, v08ltu, and Sihao Wu.

We also thank John Friedlander and Dan Goldston for help with the references, Mads Sørensen for LaTeX formatting help, and Thomas Engelsma for supplying us with his data on admissible prime tuples.

Thanks to Michael Nielsen for hosting the polymath wiki for this project.


Polymath8b

Participants and contact information

Caution: this list may be incomplete. Participants who have made significant contributions to the project (on par with a co-author on a traditional mathematical research paper) should add themselves to this list, or email tao@math.ucla.edu if they are unable to do so directly. Participants who have made auxiliary contributions to the project (on par with those mentioned in an Acknowledgments section in a traditional paper) should add themselves instead to the list at the bottom of the page.

  • Ignace Bogaert, Ghent University
  • Aubrey de Grey, SENS
  • Gergely Harcos, Rényi Institute, [11]
  • Emmanuel Kowalski, ETHZ, [12]
  • Philippe Michel, EPFL, [13]
  • James Maynard, U. Montreal, [14]
  • Paul Nelson, EPFL, [15]
  • Pace Nielsen, Brigham Young University, [16]
  • Eytan Paldi, Technion Institute
  • Andrew V. Sutherland, MIT, [17]
  • Terence Tao, UCLA, [18]
  • Xiao-Feng Xie, Carnegie Mellon University, [19]

Grant information

  • Etienne Fouvry was partially supported by the Institut Universitaire de France.
  • Gergely Harcos was supported by OTKA grants K 101855 and K 104183, and by ERC Advanced Grant 228005.
  • Phillipe Michel was partially supported by the grant SNF-137488 and the grant ERC-EQUIARITH AdG- 228304.
  • Paul Nelson is supported by NSF grant OISE-1064866 and partially supported by grant SNF-137488.
  • Andrew V. Sutherland was supported by NSF grant DMS-1115455.
  • Terence Tao was supported by a Simons Investigator grant, the James and Carol Collins Chair, the Mathematical Analysis & Application Research Fund Endowment, and by NSF grant DMS-1266164. Part of this research was performed while TT was visiting the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), which is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Other acknowledgments

Other contributors to the project include ....

We also thank Mads Sørensen for LaTeX formatting help, and Thomas Engelsma for supplying us with his data on admissible prime tuples.

Thanks to Michael Nielsen for hosting the polymath wiki for this project, and to Dropbox for supplying some additional file storage space.