Timeline for How to accelerate progress in mathematical research?
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| Sep 8, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | user44143 | Anyone serious about this proposal should figure out the cost properly! If $1 million/yr for this would make a solution likely within 10 years, maybe money for the Jeff Bezos Riemann Hypothesis Institute would be forthcoming, and then a proof. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 14:50 | comment | added | liuyao | Excellent example! Is this supported by a grant? Another good example is the IMFDB lmfdb.org How are such resources maintained? (Maybe it should be another question) Is it like Stack Projects, largely the effort of one person? | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 23:32 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | @MattF.Maybe as a rough estimate, but a lot of people on Wikipedia edit many different types of articles, so having something like Wikipedia takes advantages of network effects. And for this sort of thing to work, one would presumably want much more detailed and technical articles than just those on Wikipedia. My guess is that the cost would be much higher. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 10:27 | comment | added | user44143 | Some rough numbers: mathematics is roughly 1% of Wikipedia, and the budget of the Wikimedia foundation is roughly $80 million per year. So maybe this proposal costs $1 million per year? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:1,000_core_topics upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/60/… | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 9:27 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | @GerhardPaseman Assembling a list of all lemmas (tagged with appropriate metadata) which have been used in all attempts of the RH so far, would be a good starting point I think. As a fact, I got an email yesterday regarding a research question in algebraic combinatorics, and I could basically solve the question by just referring to 3 or 4 rather obscure references (which I have encountered while compiling my web-resource), and chaining them together. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 23:23 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Sep 6, 2019 at 22:36 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | One could argue similarly that MathOverflow is another such resource. While I think you have a good point, I believe Stanley's observation above is more pertinent to the question asked. I am unsure how your approach would improve the current literature assembled (and being assembled) on the Riemann Hypothesis. Gerhard "Wikipedia Does Deserve More Funding" Paseman, 2019.09.06. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | paul garrett | Yes, putting everything on-line as a first (or zero-th) approximation, and then having serious people refine and streamline, ... repeatedly, if appropriate... with their personal reputations giving some kind of guarantee of veracity... gives a more efficient starting-point for further progress. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 21:15 | history | answered | Per Alexandersson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |