Timeline for Hard maths on viXra? [closed]
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| Feb 9, 2016 at 3:03 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 1:57 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I have deleted a bunch of comments having to do with whether this question should remain open, be deleted, and other assorted meta concerns (which belong at meta; there is a thread about this post if you want to comment on this, here: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/2718/on-the-vixra-question). Further comments here at main should be constrained to addressing the actual question. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 14:20 | vote | accept | Delio Mugnolo | ||
| Feb 4, 2016 at 11:48 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:57 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:57 | history | edited | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:50 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @StanleyYaoXiao: Certainly viXra has lots of garbage. But to play devil's advocate, since it was founded with the explicit intention of eschewing moderation or filtering, calling it "not trustworthy" kind of misses the point; it was never meant for anyone to trust it. It's a place where anyone can post math-ish PDFs, and readers can make of them what they will. They're upfront about this, and have never claimed to be anything else. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:43 | comment | added | Delio Mugnolo | @StanleyYaoXiao Of course you're right, but I was not looking for a site to trust in the first place: I was wondering whether for any reason any pieces of decent mathematical ever made it to viXra, for whatever reason. It also struck me that the authors very seldom mention a way to contact them, just in case - not an affiliation, of course, not an address, not even an e-mail address. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 7:39 | history | edited | Delio Mugnolo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 6:36 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Surely Simon Plouffe counts as a mathematician: vixra.org/author/simon_plouffe but some (not all!) of these are also on the arXiv as well, eg arXiv:math/0702300 vs viXra:1409.0083 | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 4:37 | history | closed |
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 1:32 | answer | added | Tony Huynh | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 0:46 | comment | added | darij grinberg | @IgorKhavkine: Euler's works come with lesser copyright troubles. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 0:41 | comment | added | Igor Khavkine | @darijgrinberg, not necessarily a reason to be rejected from the arXiv, as evidenced by the number of papers authored by Leonhard Euler hosted there. | |
| S Feb 4, 2016 at 0:03 | history | suggested | Tadashi |
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:57 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Also, the word "Scienceographic" is an abomination and whoever came up with it should be ashamed. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:56 | comment | added | darij grinberg | vixra.org/pdf/1208.0223v1.pdf is a set of lecture notes on combinatorics by de Bruijn taken by Nienhuys. I don't know if the scribes have tried taking it to the arXiv, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got rejected due to the scribes not being authors. That said, this is the only time I have found anything of use on the viXra... | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:49 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:37 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I suppose I would only read a paper on vixra.org if I knew it had a paper that interested me. Similarly, the papers I read on the arXiv I usually hear about some other way -- someone points it out to me, or I see it cited in another paper I'm reading. I don't find it natural to browse paper repositories just to pass time. I suppose I've looked at the arXiv a few times just to get a sense for what some people are up to. That said, I feel like I'm answering a different question than the one you ask. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | Stanley Yao Xiao | On the first page on number theory I see a purported proof of the Goldbach conjecture (vixra.org/abs/1601.0109), the Collatz conjecture (vixra.org/abs/1601.0299), and a disproof of the Riemann hypothesis (vixra.org/abs/1601.0281). The total length of these papers is 27. I would therefore boldly argue that this website is not at all trustworthy and people should be fine browsing just the arxiv. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 23:08 | history | asked | Delio Mugnolo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |