Timeline for How to know if somebody else is also working on your problem?
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| Apr 27, 2010 at 18:44 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | If someone has a way to solve the problem with only a little work, it's better to find that out before making it the subject of your disseration. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 18:28 | history | edited | Dan Ramras | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:54 | comment | added | Hailong Dao | @Joel: that's is very good point, especially since here people are so eager to help. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:44 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | This strategy might be particularly risky for PhD students, since advertising the problem on MO may well lead someone to solve it, even if they had no intention to do so before seeing it. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:21 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I think such questions should not be encouraged. (Which is not the same as saying that they should be discouraged.) But at the very least such a question should have a reasonably comprehensive list of what you were able to find out on your own. This will cut down on the number of answers you'll get thereby making the question stay on the front page less long and be less annoying. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:15 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | After reading this I did a search, and found (to my surprise) that the vast majority of "What is known" questions here have not been closed. So it seems this is within the scope of MO. | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:14 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I think in practice, whether this would be effective depends strongly on whether the problem caters to the specialties of the mathematicians here... | |
| Apr 27, 2010 at 17:01 | history | answered | Dan Ramras | CC BY-SA 2.5 |