Timeline for Open Problems for Undergraduates [closed]
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 9:18 | comment | added | eric | This comment might end up under the fold forever, but perhaps the OP will see it -- my advice to them is not to ask such questions here, but to find an enthusiastic member of staff at their university and get them to give you an undergraduate research project. My university runs these and runs them well. There is even a small amount of money available for some people to do projects, and some staff (certainly not all, but more than zero) enjoy having the extra enthusiastic cheap labor available. I'd supervise you myself -- but not over the internet. I save my best puzzles for my own students:-) | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 20:34 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | As this question is closed I recommend that you post it on MathSE. Then I will answer. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | user9072 | For the record: I voted to close as "too broad," but I also think that this question is not fully within the scope of the site. | |
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| Dec 11, 2015 at 19:14 | answer | added | JMP | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 19:05 | comment | added | user62562 | I think the best source for the sort of problem you describe are the faculty members at your university. They probably already have a number of problems that fit into the "open but not too hard" category for any future/current phd students. I hope, certainly in some fields, they'd also be able to explain the problems in a way understandable to undergrads. | |
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| Dec 11, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | sdfaewrFAAEA | @Vidit: Your comment answers my questions completely. Thanks. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 18:42 | answer | added | Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 18:38 | comment | added | Vidit Nanda | Think about the constraints you are placing on this hypothetical problem list: the problems should be interesting enough for someone to collect and easy enough for an undergrad to solve, either too new or too obscure to be "long-standing", but miraculously not already solved by the people who collect such problems. I'm not saying no such list can exist, but I'd be surprised if it did. In any case, let me strongly recommend that you apply for a summer REU --- those are designed precisely for the sort of people you appear to be describing. | |
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| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | (Sorry, I didn't recognize the URL.) | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:44 | comment | added | sdfaewrFAAEA | @Joseph: The second link is also in my post. Have you read my post/question? | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | This MSE posting might help: "Undergraduate Mathematics Research." To supplement the list you found, DIMACS Open problems for undergraduates, there is The Open Problems Project, the latter not specifically oriented to undergraduates. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | joro | So are you asking for OPEN, but not open for long? | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | sdfaewrFAAEA | I think, "long-open" questions are not the kind of problems I am searching for. Is it realistic for an undergraduate to solve "long-open" problems. In general, I would say no. Maybe there are some geniuses. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | joro | Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand mathoverflow.net/questions/100265/… | |
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