Timeline for Where to publish math that's original but easy but requires theorems not every undergrad knows?
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| Dec 9, 2017 at 0:13 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 21:13 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I agree with alvarezpaiva that it matters less how easy the result is than how important/interesting it is. But if you're considering the AMM problem section, I don't think that recursion/smn necessarily disqualify it. What would disqualify it is an uninteresting statement. If the statement of the result is interesting and short then I'd go ahead and submit it to the AMM. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 20:07 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Might adding an expository account of the two theorems make it both acceptable to the journals in question and valuable to a broad audience? Besides, maybe you shouldn't think of a journal as "easy" merely because following the math involved in the papers is easy and elementary. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 19:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by François G. Dorais | ||
| Jan 7, 2014 at 19:19 | answer | added | François G. Dorais | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 18:30 | answer | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 16:56 | comment | added | alvarezpaiva | To silence my conscience, let me add that if you think the result is important (who cares if a proof is simple, the importance of a result is not measured by the difficulty of its proof but by how well it fits into the mosaic mathematics), then maybe you should try to publish it or make it widely known sooner than later. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 15:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 15:47 | comment | added | alvarezpaiva | I think we all keep a few papers like that in the drawer, sometimes for years, before they are included in lecture notes, books, or more substantial papers. Is it on the ArXiv? As you describe it, the paper will not add much to your reputation so why go through the hassle of submission, rejection/acceptance, editing, etc.? | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 15:46 | answer | added | Boris Novikov | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 15:32 | history | asked | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |