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The idea is awesome, but it sort of loses its usefulness to people who aren't math experts. It's very clear by looking at the website that it's _not_ meant to b

by nv-vn 10y ago

The idea is awesome, but it sort of loses its usefulness to people who aren't math experts. It's very clear by looking at the website that it's _not_ meant to be a Wikipedia for math. That's definitely not a bad thing, but I think that this website leaves an opening for something conceptually similar (but different in its implementation) that would be a sort of digital pathway through as many math concepts as possible -- for example, you can start on a page formalizing the idea of numbers and click links to navigate to addition, and then later on to multiplication, etc. allowing one to study math from the ground up. Or, you could start at a high-level concept and work your way down to the simple math. The purpose wouldn't be for researchers to better connect math, but for students trying to learn how math comes together in a broader sense. I think that a site like that could serve the same general purpose we see here of collecting math into a big catalog, just in a way that's more friendly to newcomers.

aardvark179 10y ago
Mathworld feels like it is part way to being the thing you want, but does mention Mathematica more than may be strictly necessary.
spuz 10y ago
There is something like this already called Wolfram Mathworld [1]. As a mathematical laymen trying to solve the problems on Project Euler, Mathworld would often give me the insight I needed to find an efficient solution so it is a great tool for students. [1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
hasch 10y ago
as someone who has been at their workshops, there are ideas to do that. the goal is to have a semantic database, with a 3form ontology. look at these slides of the open dreamkit project: http://opendreamkit.org/meetings/2016-01-25-DKS/Kohlhase_slides.pdf http://opendreamkit.org/meetings/2016-01-25-DKS/Kohlhase_sli... ... somewhere there lmfdb should be mentioned
sn9 10y ago
I think that's called a university undergraduate math curriculum. You could look at the top n undergraduate math programs in your state and see what the flowchart of courses are and their corresponding syllabi and just go from there.

by nv-vn 10y ago

aardvark179 10y ago

Mathworld feels like it is part way to being the thing you want, but does mention Mathematica more than may be strictly necessary.

spuz 10y ago

There is something like this already called Wolfram Mathworld [1]. As a mathematical laymen trying to solve the problems on Project Euler, Mathworld would often give me the insight I needed to find an efficient solution so it is a great tool for students. [1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

hasch 10y ago

as someone who has been at their workshops, there are ideas to do that. the goal is to have a semantic database, with a 3form ontology. look at these slides of the open dreamkit project: http://opendreamkit.org/meetings/2016-01-25-DKS/Kohlhase_slides.pdf http://opendreamkit.org/meetings/2016-01-25-DKS/Kohlhase_sli... ... somewhere there lmfdb should be mentioned

sn9 10y ago

I think that's called a university undergraduate math curriculum. You could look at the top n undergraduate math programs in your state and see what the flowchart of courses are and their corresponding syllabi and just go from there.