Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: Formal conjectures

Topic: Green's open problem list


Anirudh Rao (Oct 07 2025 at 09:06):

I saw this pdf linked on #510 and thought to post it here to give some attention to it. Some of the problems are repeated from the Erdos problems (like #510 being the same as 81 on the pdf) but a lot are new problems I hadn't heard of. I'm planning on adding each problem not covered by the Erdos problems as individual issues (when it isn't so late for me)

Moritz Firsching (Oct 07 2025 at 09:13):

very nice, I have been meaning to add a link to Green's list to the Readme as an example of dedicated problems list as well!

Anirudh Rao (Oct 08 2025 at 05:13):

I've added a couple of the problems as issues but unfortunately can't add the AMS tags as well. Also, wow creating all these issues is tedious. Massive kudos to @Moritz Firsching for how many Erdos problem issues he's created.

Anirudh Rao (Oct 08 2025 at 05:15):

unrelated but erdosproblems #342 also linked this book that might be good to add more problems (though it needs institutional access) - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-26677-0

Joseph Myers (Oct 08 2025 at 08:58):

Anirudh Rao said:

unrelated but erdosproblems #342 also linked this book that might be good to add more problems (though it needs institutional access) - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-26677-0

Note that as well as that book (Unsolved Problems in Number Theory), the series Unsolved Problems in Intuitive Mathematics has a second book Unsolved Problems in Geometry - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-0963-8 - though since it never had a second edition, there would be a lot of work to figure out what's been solved since 1991 (the 1994 reprint has a brief note listing sections on which there had been "major progress", with no further details given).

Moritz Firsching (Oct 08 2025 at 09:07):

I started with the first problem from Green's list, to establish a convention for the name of directory/namespace, https://github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures/pull/899, reviews welcome


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