{"id":2191,"date":"2017-02-25T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:45:47","slug":"polymath-12-rotas-basis-conjecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Polymath 12: Rota&#8217;s Basis Conjecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/polymathprojects.org\/2017\/02\/23\/rotas-basis-conjecture-polymath-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polymath 12<\/a> has just recently launched, and the topic is Rota&#8217;s Basis Conjecture! \u00a0See this <a href=\"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=611\" target=\"_blank\">guest post<\/a>\u00a0by Jan Draisma for information\u00a0on Rota&#8217;s Basis Conjecture.<\/p>\n<p>The polymath projects are a sort of mathematical experiment proposed by Tim Gowers to see if massively collaborative mathematics is possible. \u00a0The proposed proof proceeds via a sequence of public comments on a blog. \u00a0The general idea is to blurt out whatever idea comes into your head to allow for rapid public dissemination.<\/p>\n<p>Polymath 12 is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~tchow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Chow<\/a>\u00a0and you can click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/polymathprojects.org\/2017\/02\/23\/rotas-basis-conjecture-polymath-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to follow the progress or to contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymath 12 has just recently launched, and the topic is Rota&#8217;s Basis Conjecture! \u00a0See this guest post\u00a0by Jan Draisma for information\u00a0on Rota&#8217;s Basis Conjecture. The polymath projects are a sort of mathematical experiment proposed by Tim Gowers to see if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/?p=2191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matroidunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}