Blogs about: Mathematics On The Internet
Featured Blog
Miscellaneous matters
Michael Nielsen and I have written an Opinion Piece for Nature about the Polymath project and related matters. Thanks almost entirely to Ryan O’Donnell, a preprint at last exists that contains P… more →
Gowers's Weblog
Collaborative math research - a real example
porton wrote 1 month ago: There were much talking about writing math research articles collaboratively but no real action. I p … more →
Miscellaneous matters
— 1 comment
gowers wrote 1 month ago: Michael Nielsen and I have written an Opinion Piece for Nature about the Polymath project and relate … more →
Math Overflow!!
Andreas Holmstrom wrote 1 month ago: An amazing new questions-and-answers site has been launched, and I believe it will be a huge success … more →
Possible future Polymath projects
— 68 comments
gowers wrote 2 months ago: I am still very busy at the moment and do not expect to be able to get down to any serious polymathe … more →
The next phase of Polymath
— 3 comments
gowers wrote 4 months ago: After the surprising success of the collaborative attack on the density Hales-Jewett theorem, many p … more →
What is Wolfram Alpha good for?
— 50 comments
gowers wrote 6 months ago: It’s early days and this isn’t meant to be a carefully considered review of Wolfram … more →
Wolfram Alpha launched next week?
— 1 comment
Andreas Holmstrom wrote 6 months ago: A friend showed me this today, and I just find it so cool: Check out the demo video for Wolfram Alph … more →
Tricki now fully live
— 23 comments
gowers wrote 7 months ago: Update (25/4/09). Since the launch, the number of pages on the Tricki has doubled (from 104 to 208), … more →
Doing mathematics online
— 1 comment
Andreas Holmstrom wrote 7 months ago: As many others have already noted, the Tricki project is now on the verge of going live, thanks to t … more →
Tricki available for viewing
— 17 comments
gowers wrote 7 months ago: It’s been a long time coming, but the Tricki is now on the point of going fully live. If you n … more →
Can Polymath be scaled up?
— 41 comments
gowers wrote 8 months ago: As I have already commented, the outcome of the Polymath experiment differed in one important respec … more →
Background to a Polymath project
— 12 comments
gowers wrote 10 months ago: This post contains brief descriptions of some mathematics that one would need to know in order to ha … more →
Is massively collaborative mathematics possible?
— 116 comments
gowers wrote 10 months ago: Of course, one might say, there are certain kinds of problems that lend themselves to huge collabora … more →
Very brief Tricki update
— 12 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: December 18th. I suppose there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that I’m not af … more →
The forthcoming launch of the Tricki
— 21 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: I am delighted to be able to say that the Wiki for mathematical problem-solving techniques is going … more →
Just-do-it proofs
— 21 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: This post is another sample Tricks Wiki article, which revisits a theme that I treated on my web pag … more →
How to use Zorn's lemma
— 25 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: I am continuing my series of sample articles for the Tricks Wiki with one that is intended to repres … more →
Dimension arguments in combinatorics
— 7 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: Here is another article that I hope to develop into an entry on the Tricks Wiki. It concerns the use … more →
Recognising countable sets
— 9 comments
gowers wrote 1 year ago: As may be obvious from the sudden increase in my posting rate (which I don’t expect to be able … more →
