The end of the solitary genius (Image: Dirk Anschütz/Corbis)
Editorial: “Mathematics becomes more sociable“
MATHEMATICIANS don’t have to be brilliant loners. The of a successful wiki-style mathematical project shows how a large-scale collaboration made up of amateurs and professionals can be just as effective.
The project, called Polymath, was born in January 2009 when University of Cambridge mathematician proposed it in a . Another leading mathematician, of the University of California, Los Angeles, flagged the idea on . The project began in earnest with a for…
