Math Atlas is a student-run project to create a public online database filled with unsolved math problems. My goal is to make math more accessible for the average person, and hopefully change the way the world sees and interacts with math.
Math Atlas plans to not only illustrate the links between different problems through visualizations such as “problem trees,” but also provide learning resources directly in the problems themselves, giving enough background information such that someone with only an undergraduate-level understanding of math could attempt to solve the problem. This accessibility is the key feature that will separate Math Atlas from databases like Wikipedia and other online resources. Through providing these resources, it is my hope that the sheer brain power of thousands of undergraduates, who are now able to explore these problems more realistically, could potentially lead to important breakthroughs on the world’s most important mathematical questions.