Talk:Polymath Project

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These may be useful for writing more about polymath and/or crowdsourcing in science:

• http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/63252/title/Crowdsourcing_peer_review
• NYTimes' Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 19:21, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More:

• The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share: From cancer to cosmology, researchers could race ahead by working together—online and in the open by Michael Nielsen (WSJ)
• More than a blog (EMBO reports (2011) 12, 1102 - 1105)

Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 12:55, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also see the Polymath wiki on asone.ai. Themumblingprophet (talk) 22:32, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This paper provides an interesting quantitative analysis of the project and some recommendations for future projects: Cranshaw and Kittur (2011) "The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics" http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979213 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msalganik (talk • contribs) 18:52, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]