This person also claimed that later, an erratum to this paper
appeared.
Is this true? Does anyone know a reference?
This is the same lunch where I heard about the Antarctica Journal
of Mathematics:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/prof/journal.html
It seems absurd, but somehow too lame to be a joke: an Antarctic
journal of mathematics run from India, with page charges, which
only accepts submissions in Microsoft word. Perhaps it's just
a very good joke. Does anyone know for sure?
The AMS Math. Reviews includes index entries and a few reviews of
articles from Antarct. J. Math., so I reckon they think it's real.
Doug Chatham
To email, replace "spam" with "chat" in my email address.
I can't comment as to the content since I refuse to pay the $120 to
read articles just to see how good they are... Has anyone actually
read any of them? Any comments?
cheers-
Eric
> At Dartmouth this Friday, I was told by someone who claimed not
> to be lying that a group of authors, perhaps from the NSA or
> something, once published a math paper consisting of a single
> digit: the millionth (or perhaps five millionth) digit of pi.
>
> This person also claimed that later, an erratum to this paper
> appeared.
>
> Is this true? Does anyone know a reference?
>
see
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_frm/thread/882597b2de7cf2
a8
Martin Roller asked in sci.math for the shortest math paper, and among
those submitted, the shortest was 12 lines long.
--
G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
The articles seem to be referenced in MathSciNet. But not reviewed.
--
David A. Madore
(david....@ens.fr,
http://www.dma.ens.fr/~madore/ )
>John Baez wrote:
>> http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/prof/journal.html
>> It seems absurd, but somehow too lame to be a joke: an Antarctic
>> journal of mathematics run from India, with page charges, which
>> only accepts submissions in Microsoft word. Perhaps it's just
>> a very good joke. Does anyone know for sure?
>The AMS Math. Reviews includes index entries and a few reviews of
>articles from Antarct. J. Math., so I reckon they think it's real.
Interesting! And you're not referring to the Antarctica Mathematical
Society, either.
Yesterday I became convinced this journal was a joke when I noticed
that their website says
"Price list is subject to change from time to time"
and that the price actually doubled in the very first year, from $120
per year to $240 per year. I thought it was a joke about journal prices.
Also, if you look at the bottom of the journal's cover here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/prof/images/ajm1_1_2004.jpg
you'll notice it says, in italics:
"A Prestigious International Research Journal"
Furthermore, if you click on the link to look at abstracts of papers,
you get a pop-up window with a spam-like ad.
All this suggests we're dealing with a joke. The cartoon pictures
of penguins fail to suggest otherwise.
But, there are abstracts of papers that look like real papers!
And, some of the papers are listed on Math Reviews as well - though
I don't see any that are actually reviewed.
So, the Antarctica Journal of Mathematics seems poised right at that
delicate cusp, where I can't tell if it's a hoax or a real thing.
Excellent!
In the list of Antarct. J. Math. articles indexed by MathSciNet, I saw
a few article summaries and one (1) review: MR2203680 (2006j:94103)
The article is by T. L. Alderson of the University of New Brunswick,
and is entitled "On MDS codes of dimension 3." The article appears in
Antarct. J. Math. 2 (2005), no. 2, 143--168. The reviewer's name is
Raymond Hill, and the review seems to be a standard mathematical
review.
I know Raymond Hill. He is an excellent mathematician; so his review
can probably be trusted to be based on a reasonable paper.
Arnold Neumaier