Chapter 46 Editorial Department of Annals of Mathematics
Chapter 46 Editorial Department of "Annals of Mathematics"
Author: Chief Designer
Chapter 46 Editorial Department of "Annals of Mathematics"
United States, Princeton University.
As one of the most famous universities in the world, it was founded in 1746 and has a history of nearly three hundred years. For a school, it can be said to have a long history.
And such a long history naturally gives this school a profound foundation that cannot be matched by other ordinary schools.
Especially in mathematics.
In some ways, this place has become the center of world mathematics since World War II in the last century.
"Annals of Mathematics", one of the four top journals in mathematics, was also founded by Princeton University, so the official domain name of "Annals of Mathematics" includes the word "princeton".
Editorial Board of Annals of Mathematics.
"Hey friends, the market is open. Guess how many submissions we have received today?"
The door of the office was opened, and several editors from the "Annual Review of Mathematics" walked in with a cup of coffee in hand. Editor Mike sat back in his seat and said with a smile.
"Who knows?" Another editor, Caokins, shook his head with a smile, but then he couldn't help complaining: "Today is Thursday... Hou Li Crab will be off tomorrow on Friday, so there must be a lot of submissions today.
!I’m afraid there are at least a hundred articles.”
Dylan sighed and said: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this kind of thing, but don't forget, we haven't finished reading the submissions from the previous week."
"makes sense."
The editors immediately shook their heads helplessly.
For them, it is routine to complain about too many submissions every day.
No way, who told them this is the "Annual Review of Mathematics"?
Although there are few people studying mathematics, the base numbers are there after all. There will always be some people who do not measure their own abilities to submit articles. In addition, the status of "Annals of Mathematics" in the mathematics world...
"We are the gold diggers in the garbage dump~"
Mike hummed a newly composed ditty in his mouth, opened his computer, entered their submission mailbox, and looked at various submissions.
"The first article...about the proof of Goldbach's conjecture." Mike read out the title of the first submission, and immediately there was laughter in the office.
It was filled with a happy atmosphere for a moment.
As soon as they saw this kind of title, they knew it was posted by someone from Minke.
If it is really professional, the title will usually be "Any even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers".
Of course, even if it is really such a title, they will definitely have to see if they recognize the author. If it is not from someone big, or someone with a relatively rich resume in the past, they will not believe it, because such a big person will not believe it.
Probability is also a folk science.
Don't ask, the question is that they have seen too much. They don't know how crazy civilian mathematicians are, but what is certain is that these people are very confident.
Just last month, a civilian mathematician who claimed to have proved Kakutani's conjecture broke into their editorial office and asked them why they hadn't responded for several months. After searching for a long time, it turned out that they didn't even read the article.
I just threw the submission into the system trash can, and when I found it, all the manuscripts were lost.
Mike shook his head helplessly. In order to avoid encountering the same thing as last time, he replied to the contributor of this article [Sorry, your submission did not meet our submission requirements. You can try to forward it to someone else.
Journal].
Well, having fun alone is not as good as having fun together. Let the editors of other journals also have fun.
Then he stopped thinking about it and looked at the next article.
This article looks very professional, both the title and abstract are very mature.
Of course, as usual, he will also take a look at the contributor's information first.
"Well, Skarner Gelton, associate professor of mathematics at New York University? He has published... twenty-seven papers in the past, including five papers in the first area, but he has no publishing experience in top journals."
It seems like another scholar is trying to challenge the "Annals of Mathematics".
But can he succeed?
Mike read the paper, and after reading it for a long time, he couldn't help but laugh.
Because he directly saw the problems in the argumentation process of this paper.
Although these editors are not responsible for the teaching staff of Princeton University, they all have the title of professor.
Otherwise, if a bunch of professors from prestigious universities submit articles to them, but the editor doesn’t even have a professor’s name, they will naturally not be convinced.
"pass."
After replying a rejection email to the associate professor, he continued to read other submissions.
In this way, after at least ten previous submissions had been rejected by him, he finally saw the eleventh one.
"Hey, why is this article from three days ago? Aren't all the papers I read before five days ago? Could it be that the ones from four days ago were distributed to other people?"
When he saw the submission time, he was a little confused, but he quickly ignored it and looked at the title.
"For every multiple of 4 n=4k, where k is a natural number, there is a Hadamard matrix of order n..."
"Hmm? This proposition seems a bit familiar."
Mike fell into thinking.
I seem to have heard of it.
After a while, his heart suddenly shook.
"This is... Adama's conjecture!"
Adama is well-known in the mathematical community, which means that although the conjectures he left behind are relatively unpopular, many people know about them.
And Mike happens to know, because he happens to have done some research in this direction.
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a lot of interest in his heart.
Someone actually tried to prove the Adamard conjecture?
This is quite rare, because civil science rarely encounters this kind of conjecture.
And the difficulty is natural. "Remember that up to now, you have only constructed a Hadamard matrix of order 428?"
Thinking in his mind, he also downloaded all the attachments of this submission.
Naturally, the information of the contributors is also included.
No matter how awesome the title of the manuscript is, it is Mike's habit to look at the contributor's information first to avoid wasting time.
But when he opened this contributor profile and read the basic information above, Mike felt a little hopeless.
"Li Mu? Only 19 years old? Are you kidding me?"
Let’s not talk about how bold it is to claim that he proved Adama’s conjecture at the age of nineteen. Just say that he dared to submit an article to their "Annual Review of Mathematics" at the age of nineteen. Mike would give this young man a thumbs up.
Courageous.
Of course, after the thumbs up, it means complete disbelief.
How can a nineteen-year-old young man, who may not have achieved anything before, prove Adama's conjecture?
Mike didn't believe it.
"What a pity. I originally thought this was an article that would bring news to the mathematics community..."
He shook his head and sighed, but just in the middle of the sigh, he suddenly froze because his eyes suddenly noticed the column "Papers published in the past".
He blinked, and there were actually...more than a dozen articles listed on it??
And also...
All from the same area???
Mike was frightened.
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