I performed a variant of my suggested experiment. I went on facebook and found a friend of mine, who has a B.S. in mathematics and did some coursework toward a

I performed a variant of my suggested experiment. I went on facebook and found a friend of mine, who has a B.S. in mathematics and did some coursework toward a Masters. It took him about 5 minutes to identify it as a hoax. And he was distracted (with facebook, football, and his 3 year old.) He's how the exchange went: 12:11pm ME: tell me what you think of http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mathgen-1389529747.pdf http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/... 12:11pm HIM: How in-depth a review do you want? 12:12pm ME: just give me your first impressions 12:14pm HIM: My first thought: "Holy crap, there's a ton here I don't even remember..." 12:14pm ME: second thought? 12:15pm HIM: Second thought: "Is this legit? It's all over the place..." 12:15pm ME: third thought? 12:16pm HIM: "This is starting to look like something thrown together to appear like a legit math paper." 12:17pm ME: Thanks. That's adequate. It actually is. 12:17pm HIM: Yeah, I was about to say I was 100% certain after one more glance. EDIT: my wife and I both have advanced math degrees, and we spent the morning laughing at this paper. But since we already knew it was a hoax from the HN post, we weren't valid targets for this experiment. My friend didn't know anything about it before this chat, so he was a valid experimental target. I think his response is adequate to demonstrate that this paper wouldn't pass peer review by actual mathematicians working for a legitimate journal.