Hello,
I just wanted to point out Tim Gowers' Polymath, an experiment in "massively collaborative mathematics" currently underway on his blog: http://gowers.wordpress.com/ It seems the basic idea is that in an appropriate public setting, mathematicians (or anyone else) may be able to organize and collaborate fruitfully on research-level projects. Here are his posts on points philosophical and procedural: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/questions-of-procedure/ The pilot project, by the way, is about the density Hales-Jewett theorem: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/background-to-a-polymath-project/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/ Anyway, whether this effort stays on Gowers' blog, moves to some LaTeX-enabled forum, or does something completely different, I thought I'd ask about integrating Sage into similar environments, for professionals and amateurs alike. Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would be useful in fully-fledged forums? For example, one might embed a live cell with a plot, equation, derivation, etc., in a post, in order to illustrate a point in a thread about smooth operators, rank tensors, etc. Thoughts? (MathLinks, which is oriented to problem solving, appears to be the most prominent example of LaTeX-enabled forums: http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/index.php Their software appears to be a heavily customized version of phpBB. Other examples, especially blogs, abound.) My apologies for my ignorance and naivete. Sincerely, Pat LeSmithe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
