The way things are looking at the moment, I think it’s unlikely that I’ll start a project before November, but the preliminary posts might come out earlier. (A similar core of regular contributors has developed for Terry’s polymath4: I wonder if this will happen for all projects that get off the ground.) And secondly, having chosen a new project, I want to write several introductory posts to give people a chance to get up to speed before the project properly starts. First, I want to get a sense of which, out of many potential projects I have in mind, would appeal to enough other people for there to be a good chance of finding a core of people ready to put in an effort similar to the effort that some people put into DHJ. So for my next project I would like to do two things. Having said that, a common complaint about the first Polymath project was that it got started so rapidly that it was very easy to get left behind. (The projects are Gil Kalai’s on the polynomial Hirsch conjecture and Terence Tao’s on finding primes deterministically.) And in any case, there are two Polymath projects going on at the moment, so I am not in a huge hurry to start another. I am still very busy at the moment and do not expect to be able to get down to any serious polymathematics for a few weeks, at least.
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