As the project took form, two main threads of discourse emerged. The initial proposed problem for this project, now called Polymath1 by the Polymath community, was to find a new combinatorial proof to the density version of the Hales–Jewett theorem. The first Crowdmath project began on March 1, 2016. Older participants are welcomed to participate as mentors and encouraged not to post solutions to the problems.
All high school and college students from around the world with advanced background of mathematics are encouraged to participate. However, this is specifically aimed at only high school and college students with a goal of creating "a specific opportunity for the upcoming generation of math and science researchers." The problems are original research and unsolved problems in mathematics. This project is built upon the same idea of the Polymath project that massive collaboration in mathematics is possible and possibly quite fruitful. Since its inception, it has now sponsored a " Crowdmath" project in collaboration with MIT PRIMES program and the Art of Problem Solving. Along with the math problem itself, Gowers asked a question which was included in the title of his blog post, "is massively collaborative mathematics possible?" This post led to his creation of the Polymath Project. In January 2009, Gowers chose to start a social experiment on his blog by choosing an important unsolved mathematical problem and issuing an invitation for other people to help solve it collaboratively in the comments section of his blog.
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