This has been one of my earlier academic dreams. I have pitched the idea to Prof Ravi Vakil, among others. Recently, because of participation in the mathematical competition hosted by Alibaba, I have decided to revive my decade-old enthusiasm. The basic idea is as follows. Many mathematical texts...
These are great references that I wasn't able to locate myself. I may explore Reddit more next. — John Jiang1 min ago
@JohnJiang I did not want to mention the specific reading groups (study groups) which were run here in Stack Exchange chat in the comments - some of them failed rather quickly, the users might prefer not to be shown as an examples.
Let me mention a few at least here in chat.
This room was probably the most successful project in this direction:
Reading groups and study groups
Let us collect here rooms which are intended to assist a group of users studying specific text or specific topic.
Set Theory Study Group - the intention is first to go through necessary preliminaries and then to study Kunen's Set Theory (the newer edition).
Maybe there were some other which I wasn't able to locate now or which I missed.
You can find some other rooms which have study, reading orgroup in the title.
Some of them were intended as study groups. Many of them were rather shortlived.
I do not know to which extent looking at these past groups might be interesting to you - but you might at least see what worked and what did not work in them.
@JohnJiang I hope you receive some kind of notification about this - I have sent you chat invitation into this room, so I guess it should reach you eventually.
As I see that you're already looking into the differential topology room I've mentioned above, it seems quite likely that you've seen at least some of the stuff I've written here. :-)
Or maybe I have invited you into a wrong room....?
For some reason, I am no longer offered the option to invite you into this room.
I used the MO chatroom once and quickly lost focus; people in math/physics do not have similar level of urgency as software engineers:D Something like Slack would be much more useful. Unfortunately they mostly cater towards engineers. — John Jiang12 mins ago
I wanted to invite you in a chatroom to continue the discussion there (and avoid having too many comments digressing from the original topic). I might have invited you to a wrong room by mistake, I wanted to get your attention to what I wrote here: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19138/2020/7/6 Let me know when you see this comment, so that I can delete it. — Martin Sleziak23 secs ago
Re: Slack would be more useful. I am not claiming that SE chatrooms are a great option. I just wanted to mention some past study groups that I was aware of.
And chatrooms have the advantage ithat they might be good for people who are already part of the SE community and they are often using chat anyway.
Reading groups and study groups
Let us collect here rooms which are intended to assist a group of users studying specific text or specific topic.
Set Theory Study Group - the intention is first to go through necessary preliminaries and then to study Kunen's Set Theory (the newer edition).
Martin Sleziak's room
Martin Sleziak's room