Category: Miscellaneous

This post is based on my experience as an editor for several journals. My opinion on Introductions to papers has evolved since serving in this role. The Uncomfortable Truth Here’s something that might make pure mathematicians cringe: getting your paper into a top journal has more in common with getting views on YouTube than you’d…

I just attended the recent poster session at the AMS Central Sectional Meeting at Saint Louis University. It was a great event that helped to showcase the research of many early career researchers. In viewing some of the posters, some thoughts occurred to me about what works, what doesn’t and things people might want to…

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a conference room at an AMS Sectional meeting, coffee in hand, ready to hear about some exciting new results in harmonic analysis. Twenty minutes later, you emerge confused, overwhelmed, and unsure what the speaker actually proved. The talk has ended, but you couldn’t tell anyone what it was…

Based on a real experience; names changed to protect the innocent. Imagine this scenario: Dr. Smith submits a paper to a prestigious mathematics journal. The main theorem is groundbreaking, the proof technique is novel, and the implications are significant. But there’s a problem, the formal statement of the theorem is missing a crucial hypothesis, even…