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Massive Open Collaboration In Math Declared a Success

Posted by timothy on from the you-count-the-feet-we'll-count-the-toes dept.

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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  1. Does anyone else see the pot of gold . . . . by Veni+Vidi+Dormi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    . . . at the End of this Rainbow's?

    Hollah @ Vernor Vinge!

  2. Re:I Didnt RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    intersected = crashed into