Massive Open Collaboration In Math Declared a Success

nanopolitan writes "In late January, Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner at Cambridge University, used his blog for an experiment in massive online collaboration for solving a significant problem in math — combinatorial proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem. Some six weeks (and nearly 1000 comments) later, Gowers has declared the project a success, and some of the ideas have already been written up as a preprint."

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Massive open collaboration in math

[morgan_greywolf]

I wonder if you could do massive open collaboration for software? You could probably write an OS kernel, maybe even an entire operating system!