The User's Guide Project: Looking Back and Looking Forward

DOI10.5642/JHUMMATH.202001.23MaRDI QIDQ6081250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 25 October 2023

Published in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13259

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99) General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-00)

Abstract: In 2014 Luke Wolcott created the User's Guide Project in which a group of algebraic topologists came together to write user's guides to coincide with their research papers in hopes of making their research more accessible. We examine the role of this innovative project within the greater mathematics community. We discuss the structure and history of the project, its impact on the community, and its value to the participants of the project. We end by encouraging the math community to recognize the value of the project and expand the User's Guide Project to other subfields.

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