Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha

Summary

Fermat's Library is a platform for annotating academic papers. It allows users to add annotations to difficult or unclear parts of papers. The founders, João Batalha and Luís Batalha, started the platform after realizing the need for online annotation tools while reading papers. The platform focuses on papers in physics, math, economics, biology, and computer science. They send out a weekly annotated paper to their community and have built a Chrome Extension called Librarian for the arXiv, which provides direct links to references, BibTeX extraction, and allows users to make comments on papers. Their goal is to move science towards open data, open publishing, and easier collaboration among scientists. They have observed a trend of more online collaboration around papers and are considering implementing a rating system for papers.

Have questions about the video? Create a FREE account to ask Wiz AI

7 days free trial