Do you know about metric spaces? Would you like to be the subject of an experiment? Then Timothy Gowers needs you!
Gowers put a post on his weblog this morning containing five propositions to do with metric spaces, along with three write-ups of proofs of each proposition. He’s looking for feedback on how easy or hard to understand each write-up is, as well as how well-written they were.
If you’ve some time to spare, go and take part in the experiment over at Gowers’s weblog.
I don’t know much about this sort of thing, but I’m pretty sure there’s a typo in the first one (1a). That definitely makes it harder to read, and probably wasn’t intended. I tried to mention it in a comment, but I think he’s purposely not looking at those yet. I don’t see a way to email him.
From Gowers: he is reading the comments, but just holding them in moderation for a while.
Silly me thought that comments were turned off on the post, but the box is just very pale at the bottom of the page.