On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe <qed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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?
Yes! +1 It would be great to have things like that. > > (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. Well you're just right that it would be great to have some new web-app that uses similar underlying technology to the Sage notebook, but is more like facebook or some sort of community driven discussion and collaboration environment. I really hope somebody does something in this direction. I suspect some of the thoughts Mike Hansen, Timothy Clemans, Alex Clemesha, and others have had about using Django to revamp the Sage notebook would be relevant. Something like the above might also make a good project to pitch to Google for funding... -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
