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Why isn't this in a peer-reviewed journal?
by noahlt 16y ago
Why isn't this in a peer-reviewed journal?
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- aswanson 16y agoBecause it hasn't undergone the proper level of review in order to be published in one. As it stands, there is no reason to take it seriously until it has been. There have been several posts of such papers here before, and I would highly advise the level of skepticism expressed by a fellow HNer with submissions like this c.f. : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893877 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893877
- scott_s 16y agoGranted, but this author does not set off any crackpot flags: he's had plenty of prior publications in areas relevant to the proof and works in an industry research lab. Another poster points this out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585999 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585999
- pmiller2 16y agoAlso, the paper was written using LaTeX. I have a friend who spent a semester helping to edit a small mathematics journal, and, with virtually 100% accuracy, you could tell the crackpot papers from the serious ones based simply on whether they used LaTeX or not.
- shasta 16y agoSubmissions in .doc format can also be immediately judged with near 100% accuracy.
- aswanson 16y agoWarranted. I just despise hype and sensationalism, particularly those concerning scientific breakthroughs. The title of the submission echoed similar hollow, dramatic claims and triggered my skeptical response.
- akshayubhat 16y agoWell the original author did not post the paper on scribd, he forwarded it to professors working on this problem, who in turn forwarded it to others. Someone down this chain then posted it on the Scribd Slashdot, HN etc. To give an example, revolutionary papers by serious researchers are generally directly forwarded to top researchers in that field. No one wait until Science or Nature forwards it to reviewers. To give an example consider paper proving Primes in P. It was also sent to the researchers in that area rather than waiting for a reviewers of some journal to give review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test