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Gowers sheds light on the upcoming "math tricks" wiki
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By rtalbert
Posted Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 02:50:27 PM PDT
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Timothy Gowers, Fields Medalist and editor of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, is now about to unveil a mathematical "tricks" wiki known as the Tricki. The Tricki will initially be a collection of wiki articles on general and specific mathematical problem solving techniques. But what's interesting is that Gowers wants to grow the Tricki into a kind of expert system which will semi-automatically guide mathematicians through problem solving tasks using collected knowledge. Here's the article from Gowers' blog about all that.
I wonder if, in the future, instead of having advisors, PhD students will just be pulling open problems off of a discussion board and solving them with the help of a wiki.
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The AMS Elections are open
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By overconvergent
from the elections department
Posted Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 08:14:55 AM PDT
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This is a public service announcement to say that the AMS Elections are going on, and that one can vote either online or by post; the website gives comprehensive instructions as to how to do this.
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iSquared, the new mathematics magazine
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By overconvergent
from the new magazines department
Posted Sun May 25, 2008 at 03:28:23 PM PDT
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Until Fall 2007, there was no mathematics magazine aimed at the public on general sale in the United Kingdom. Sarah Shepherd, a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, decided that such a magazine would raise the profile of mathematics amongst the general public, and so she started iSquared to fill the gap.
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Knots in the News
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By halewis
Posted Fri Dec 21, 2007 at 04:38:31 PM PDT
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Knot theory is the branch of mathematics used to classify and analyze different types of knots. The mathematical focus is primarily on knots that have already formed, but recently two physicists from UC San Diego, Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, examined why knots form. Their article, "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string," appeared in the October 16 issue of the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
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