[ExI] randomly generated math paper accepted for publication

[Adrian Tymes]

There is something of a history of this.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-crap-paper-accepted-by-journal.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> Not only is this hilarious, it makes me feel so much better:
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> Mathgen paper accepted!
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> Posted on September 14, 2012
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> I’m pleased to announce that Mathgen has had its first randomly-generated
> paper accepted by a  journal!
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> On August 3, 2012, a certain Professor Marcie Rathke of the University of
> Southern North Dakota at Hoople submitted a very interesting article to
> Advances in Pure Mathematics, one of the many fine journals put out by
> Scientific Research Publishing. (Your inbox and/or spam trap very likely
> contains useful information about their publications at this very moment!)
> This mathematical tour de force was entitled “Independent, Negative,
> Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied Formal PDE”,
> and I quote here its intriguing abstract:
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> Let ρ=A. Is it possible to extend isomorphisms? We show that D′ is
> stochastically orthogonal and trivially affine. In [10], the main result was
> the construction of p-Cardano, compactly Erdős, Weyl functions. This could
> shed important light on a conjecture of Conway-d’Alembert.
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> http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102
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> Here’s the paper:
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> http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mathgen-1389529747.pdf
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> So why does it make me feel better?  On occasion I have struggled through
> some of the papers, or unsuccessfully attempted to comprehend, some of the
> material in the more arcane publications in mathematical theory, but have
> always come away dismayed and discouraged.  It feels like a hundred
> lifetimes would be insufficient to understand the material there.  It makes
> me feel dumber than a box or rocks.
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> Now I know that even referees can be snowed by this, I realize that this
> practice could go undetected: a real human writes a reasonable abstract and
> the first page or two (which is usually about my endurance level in trying
> to comprehend the papers) then let MathSpew fill out the paper, which is
> then published in an attempt to not perish.
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> In reality, the joke is on anyone who attempts to publish in this journal,
> paying the 500 dollar fee.  If you look at the referee’s comments, it is not
> at all clear to me those were generated by an actual human either.
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> spike
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