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On 6 Apr 2011, at 10:48, Marcus du Sautoy wrote:
> I have the chance to suggest a maths project to BBC Lab UK which we could run alongside the BBC2 TV series that I am currently filming called The Code.
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> BBC Lab UK is a fantastic citizen science project getting people involved in doing real science. You can take a look at the sort of projects they've already done: http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/
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> I wondered if anyone had some really good ideas for a project that would get people doing real mathematics. At it's best these experiments generate genuine new research. I think it is important that we find a project which doesn't just involve using someone's spare computer time like the GIMPS project. That's the computer doing the maths not the person. Something like the Galazy Zoo project where you need human eyes to classify galaxies is an excellent model because a computer can't do what humans can do.
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> I think mathematics is a difficult nut to crack as far as a genuine citizen science project goes. Tim Gowers had an interesting attempt via his blog but I think he is the first to admit that ultimately it came down to a group of hard-core mathematicians who stayed the course. But it might be worth looking at his experience for ideas. Check out http://polymathprojects.org/ and http://gowers.wordpress.com/
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> Anyway, any ideas people have that could get some maths being done on the BBC Lab UK site would be brilliant.
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> Thanks
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> Marcus du Sautoy
> Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
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