On placing the expository paper "Transseries for Beginners"
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Transseries arise when we complete things in a certain way by including formal series, exponentials, and logarithms. But they have come up in non-trivial ways in many parts of mathematics: real analysis, model theory, computer algebra, dynamical systems, surreal numbers. So it seemed that an exposition NOT using the special knowledge or jargon of one area but accessible to all would be good. That is what this paper tries to be.

I tried at first to place it in a general-mathematics journal. Starting with the Monthly. But did not succeed. So in fact it will appear in the Real Analysis Exchange. (One of the three types of papers they publish are "survey" papers.) And interested people in other areas (who don't regularly scan the contents of that journal) will have to find out about it somehow.

For the Monthly: The paper was 30 pages then, but still on the borderline of being too long and on the borderline of being too technical. Journals I tried averaged 8 months to reach a decision. In all, from first submission (August 1, 2007) to acceptance (January 31, 2010) was exactly two and a half years.

On placing the expository paper "Transseries for Beginners"
(too long for a comment)

Transseries arise when we complete things in a certain way by including formal series, exponentials, and logarithms. But they have come up in non-trivial ways in many parts of mathematics: real analysis, model theory, computer algebra, dynamical systems, surreal numbers. So it seemed that an exposition NOT using the special knowledge or jargon of one area but accessible to all would be good. That is what this paper tries to be.

I tried at first to place it in a general-mathematics journal. Starting with the Monthly. But did not succeed. So in fact it will appear in the Real Analysis Exchange. (One of the three types of papers they publish are "survey" papers.) And interested people in other areas (who don't regularly scan the contents of that journal) will have to find out about it somehow.

For the Monthly: The paper was 30 pages then, but still on the borderline of being too long and on the borderline of being too technical. Journals I tried averaged 8 months to reach a decision. In all, from first submission (August 1, 2007) to acceptance (January 31, 2010) was exactly two and a half years.