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== Publications ==
Polymath, D. H. J. (2010), "Density Hales-Jewett and Moser numbers", An irregular mind, Bolyai Soc. Math. Stud., vol. 21, János Bolyai Math. Soc., Budapest, pp. 689–753, arXiv:1002.0374, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14444-8_22, ISBN 978-3-642-14443-1, MR 2815620, S2CID 15547977. From the Polymath1 project.
Polymath, D. H. J. (2012), "A new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 175 (3): 1283–1327, arXiv:0910.3926, doi:10.4007/annals.2012.175.3.6, MR 2912706, S2CID 60078. From the Polymath1 project.
Tao, Terence; Croot, Ernest III; Helfgott, Harald (2012), "Deterministic methods to find primes", Mathematics of Computation, 81 (278): 1233–1246, arXiv:1009.3956, doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-2011-02542-1, MR 2869058. From the Polymath4 project. Although the journal editors required the authors to use their real names, the arXiv version uses the Polymath pseudonym.
Polymath, D. H. J. (2014), "New equidistribution estimates of Zhang type", Algebra & Number Theory, 9 (8): 2067–2199, arXiv:1402.0811, Bibcode:2014arXiv1402.0811P, doi:10.2140/ant.2014.8.2067. From the Polymath8 project.
Polymath, D.H.J. (2014), "Variants of the Selberg sieve, and bounded intervals containing many primes", Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 1 (12) 12, arXiv:1407.4897, Bibcode:2014arXiv1407.4897P, doi:10.1186/s40687-014-0012-7, MR 3373710, S2CID 119699189 From the Polymath8 project.
Polymath, D. H. J. (2014), "The "bounded gaps between primes" Polymath project: A retrospective analysis" (PDF), Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, 94: 13–23, arXiv:1409.8361, Bibcode:2014arXiv1409.8361P.
Polymath, D. H. J. (2018), "Homogeneous length functions on groups", Algebra & Number Theory, 12 (7): 1773–1786, arXiv:1801.03908, doi:10.2140/ant.2018.12.1773, MR 3871510. From the Polymath14 project. The journal and arXiv versions use the Polymath pseudonym, though the author names appear in the journal's table of contents and on the DOI page.
Polymath, D. H. J. (2019), "Effective approximation of heat flow evolution of the Riemann $\xi$ function, and a new upper bound for the de Bruijn-Newman constant", Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 6 (3) 31: 67 pp. (paper no. 31), arXiv:1904.12438, doi:10.1007/s40687-019-0193-1, MR 4011563. From the Polymath15 project.

== See also ==
Citizen science
Crowdsourcing

== References ==

== Bibliography ==
Barany, Michael J. (2010). "'[B]ut this is blog maths and we're free to make up conventions as we go along': Polymath1 and the modalities of 'massively collaborative mathematics'". Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '10). New York: ACM. Article 10. doi:10.1145/1832772.1832786. ISBN 978-1-4503-0056-8. S2CID 17903199.
Cranshaw, Justin; Kittur, Aniket (2011). "The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). New York: ACM. pp. 1865–74. doi:10.1145/1978942.1979213. ISBN 978-1-4503-0228-9. S2CID 2498854.
Stefaneas Petros, Vandoulakis Ioannis "The Web as a Tool for Proving", Metaphilosophy. Special Issue: Philoweb: Toward a Philosophy of the Web. Guest Editors: Harry Halpin and Alexandre Monnin. Volume 43, Issue 4, pp 480–498, July 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01758.x http://web-and-philosophy.org. Reprinted in the collection: Harry Halpin and Alexandre Monnin (Eds) Philosophical Engineering: Toward a Philosophy of the Web. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, 149–167. DOI: 10.1002/9781118700143.ch10

== External links ==
Current central hub of the Polymath Project
Polymath Project blog
Gowers's blog post inspiring the project
An introduction to the Polymath Project for non-mathematicians