Its interesting how many of the same concepts and people have been
coming up lately.
Tim Gowers and his brilliant Very Short Introduction. His video of
his keynote at the Millennium conference. Then he pops up in a
collaboration with Terence Tao, who also presented there. (He is
definitely worth following, btw) And our earlier discussions of Math
on the Web (see http://backspaces.net/) and folks wondering why you'd
care. Then this post on using Knuth's notation (LaTeX) and its
historic importance. Then finally the Polymath collaborations which
require the Math plugins to the popular CMS WordPress.
Very small world indeed.
-- Owen
On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
FYI from O'Reilly Radar.
And does this suggest possibility of something like "distributed
data analysis" whereby a number of widely scattered watchdogs could
be poking into the same data set? If so, it raises interesting
questions for journalism educators: who is developing the tools to
manage such investigations?
Enabling Massively Parallel Mathematics Collaboration -- Jon Udell
writes about Mike Adams whose WordPress plugin to grok LaTeX
formatting of math has enabled a new scale of mathematics
collaboration.
http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/
-- tj
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