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• Does Genius Bloom in Individuals or in Groups?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Wikipedia has shown the power of group genius. When people put their many minds together, they often reach a precision or breadth of ideas more quickly than individuals can. Another good example of the power of collective genius came this year, when British mathematician Timothy Gowers proposed to solve an elusive ...
  6 days ago

• Erdos’s discrepancy problem

  
  Gowers's Weblog — Authority: 99
  I’ve been pretty busy over the last month or so — hence my blog silence — and continue to be busy. But here is one more discussion of a problem that was on my earlier list of possible future Polymath projects . The problem in question is sometimes known as Erdös’s discrepancy problem. (To any Hungarians ...
  1 week ago

• The Year in Mathematical Ideas

  
  Quomodocumque — Authority: 118
  I have a short piece about Tim Gowers’ Polymath project in the 2009 edition of the New York Times Year in Ideas feature. In January, Timothy Gowers, a professor of mathematics at Cambridge and a holder of the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor, decided to see if the comment section of his blog could prove ...
  1 week ago

• Personal Development For Polymaths

  
  Hunter Nuttall . com — Authority: 109
  Leonardo da Vinci: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Polymath is almost an understatement. “Polymath” comes from the Greek word polymathēs, meaning “having learned much,” and usually refers to having significant knowledge ...
  1 week ago

• The Literary Shophouse That Could

  
  The UrbanWire — Authority: 128
  An independent bookstore with a specialty in Literature, BooksActually has been a quiet part of the local book scene for some time, and they just turned 4 years old on Nov 29. Borne of owners Karen Wai and Kenny Leck’s shared love for reading, this compact establishment didn’t survive 4 years just by sitting ...
  1 week ago

• Stop Sucking And Live A Life Of Abundance

  
  Hunter Nuttall . com — Authority: 109
  More than two years ago, I told Randy Pausch that I was starting a blog with the tagline “Stop Sucking and Live a Life of Abundance.” He then wrote about it in his book The Last Lecture , and my tagline became the number one keyword people used to find my blog. While it’s no longer my number one keyword, I ...
  1 week ago

• Plans for polymath3

  
  Combinatorics and more — Authority: 111
  Polymath3 is planned to study the polynomial Hirsch conjecture. In order not to conflict with Tim Gowers’s next polymath project which I suppose will start around January, I propose that we will start polymath3 in mid April 2010 . I plan to write a few posts on the problem until then. We had a long and ...
  2 weeks ago

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