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Can "pauca sed matura" be the [mathematical] lifestyle of a brilliant-but-not-necessarily-genial say, postdoc, of our time ?

Maybe naively, I would say yes. Or, perhaps, it would be better to publish "per pound" within the so-called "Open Access & ISI" journals ?

[Feel free to edit/close this.]

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 This is almost a canonical example of a discussion-y subject. – Mariano Suárez-Alvarez Mar 31 2010 at 0:19
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 See mathoverflow.net/faq#discussion – Anton Geraschenko♦ Mar 31 2010 at 0:38
For what it's worth, ‘genial’ is used to describe someone who is friendly. It's not, and I don't know, an adjective for “brighter than brilliant, but dimmer than a genius”. – L Spice Mar 31 2010 at 1:15
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 @Spice merriam-webster.com/netdict/genial : displaying or marked by genius. However, being "friendly" with some Open Access journals is fine to some "genial" people, indeed. – Ady Mar 31 2010 at 1:52
Objection, Your Honor[s]! Subjective questions are questions that are asked in a way to extract a certain response. And mine is not [because it's a honest, and really a "hot" one (yet not for me, as a person)]. In fact, so quickly closing a thread is both subjective/argumentative. But, eventually, mathoverflow is your toy, not mine. – Ady Mar 31 2010 at 1:53
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closed as subjective and argumentative by Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Steve Huntsman, Reid Barton, François G. Dorais♦ Mar 31 2010 at 0:30

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