Timeline for Is there an index for solutions to American Mathematical Monthly problems?
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| Jun 2, 2011 at 14:56 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Searching the name of the problem is not so helpful, because it appears a name is not chosen until a solution is published. The problem itself is published with just a number, which isn't much use in finding when the solution appeared. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 2:15 | comment | added | Igor Pak | Actually, now that you mention it, if Monthly on their web site set up a wiki just for the problems, that would be a good idea. The readers can either type dates/pages of solutions (starting with the ones Jonas found), or add links to surveys, followup articles, etc. for more let's say "difficult" problems. This way when someone figures out what happened to some particular problem, there would be a space to record this. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 1:42 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Igor, you are right, but I was thinking of a more modest project, to compile a bibliographic index of problems and solutions that have appeared in the Monthly itself. As you point out, short of creating a wiki or something, one cannot expect to track all the literature stemming from a Monthly problem, but at least it would be possible to quickly check whether a solution was published in the Monthly itself, whether a few months or many years afterward. I still think that this would be useful since one could see at a glance which problems have no published solution within the Monthly itself. | |
| Jun 6, 2010 at 21:59 | history | edited | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 6, 2010 at 21:32 | history | answered | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |