That's a cool point about parallelization. There was a fascinating experiment done a few years ago by the mathemetician Tim Gowers, called the 'Polymath project', where he took a problem in math, and asked for the mathematicians who read his blog to solve parts of the problem. 40 people took part, and 7 weeks later, Gowers announced on his blog that the problem was 'probably solved'. A couple of papers came out of it, published by 'D.H.J Polymath'.
You're right, it would be cool if we could see more of this kind of thing happening. There is now a whole site dedicated to applying parallelization to other problems in math http://polymathprojects.org/
More info on this is on the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project
You're right, it would be cool if we could see more of this kind of thing happening. There is now a whole site dedicated to applying parallelization to other problems in math http://polymathprojects.org/