Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by ASipos on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:19AM (#18292608)

Come on, this is a myth. I work in math and it is not at all unusual to cite informal sources.

Also, someone should inform Greg Egan: http://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superpermu...

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by JdeBP on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:25PM (#18293847)

Itself discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271265 .

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by jessriedel on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:08PM (#18293674)

Yea, this is also something that is not unique to the internet age. Academics have been (imperfectly) assigning credit to informal contributions since there have been citations (and before!). Footnotes like "I thank B. Johnson for this argument" have always been used.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by empath75 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:25AM (#18292655)

If you click through the links, he's in the google groups thread talking about it.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by ASipos on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:58AM (#18292969)

Thanks! For those interested, the link is https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/superpermutators/j...

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