Mathematical Knowledge at Scale
- đ¤ Speaker: Stephen Watt (University of Waterloo)
- đ Date & Time: Monday 10 July 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
The world's largest organism is a clonal colony of quaking aspen in Utah, with some 40,000 trunks spanning 43 hectares and massing an estimated 6,000 metric tons. This is not a forest of individuals, but a single, living organism. We may think of mathematical knowledge in the same way. It is the goal of the International Mathematical Knowledge Trust (IMKT) to develop a global digital mathematics library, not as a comprehensive collection of individual articles, but as an integrated knowledge base, both for human readers and machine services. This talk presents the goals of the IMKT , the direction of its first steps, challenges to be overcome, and a long-term picture of scalable mathematical knowledge integration.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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Stephen Watt (University of Waterloo)
Monday 10 July 2017, 16:00-17:00