![]() ![]() Papers on other topics are welcome if they are of broad interest. Read the following sentence on their front page: Oh, my… I wrote in this blog post that at least the journal is honest about Combinatorics being low priority. None among the last 1172 papers (since 2007). The journal also had a mediocre record in Combinatorics until 2006 (12 papers out of 2661). This makes me wonder about the CJM editorial policy, as in can any editor accept any paper they wish or the decision has to made by a majority of editors? Or, perhaps, each paper is accepted only by a unanimous vote? And how many Combinatorics papers were provisionally accepted only to be rejected by such a vote of the editorial board? Most likely, we will never know the answers… Perhaps, Combinatorics is not “pure” enough or simply lacks “papers of highest quality”.Ĭuriously, Jacob Fox is one of the seven “Associate Editors”. Yes, in Cambridge, MA which has the most active combinatorics seminar that I know (and used to co-organize twice a week). ![]() Out of the 93 papers to date, it has published precisely Zero papers in Combinatorics. Publish papers of the highest quality, spanning the range of mathematics with an emphasis on pure mathematics. This is a relative newcomer, established just ten years ago in 2013. You could’ve fooled me… Maybe start by admitting you have a problem. I spoke to an editor: the AJM does not have any bias against combinatorics. Really? Some 10 years ago while writing this blog post I emailed the AJM Editor Christopher Sogge asking if the journal has a policy or an internal bias against the area. And yet not a single Combinatorics paper was deemed good enough. Since 2009 it published the total of 696 papers. The journal keeps publishing in other areas, obviously. The journal had a barely mediocre record of publishing in Combinatorics until 2008 (10 papers out of 6544, less than one per 12 years of existence, mostly in the years just before 2008). The list below is in alphabetical order and includes only general math journals. What I thought I would do is highlight a few journals which are particularly hostile to Combinatorics. This is an old fight best not rehashed again. Some people and institutions continue insisting that Combinatorics is mostly a trivial nonsense (or at least large parts of it). It’s a joy to see it represented at (most) top universities and recognized with major awards. I am happy to see it accepted by the broad mathematical community. ![]() ![]() Get the latest news from in your inbox.As you all know, my field is Combinatorics. Other winners of the 2018 Fields Medal, announced at the International Congress of Mathematics in Brazil, were Alessio Figalli from Switzerland, Caucher Birkar from Britain and Germany’s Peter Scholze. Terence Tao was the first Australian mathematician to win the medal in 2006. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years to between two and four researchers under 40, in recognition of outstanding mathematical achievement. He coped with quite a lot of detail and I found that he could quite easily grasp the essence of the research.” “At Akshay’s request, I explained what the problem was. “At our first meeting I was speaking with Akshay’s mother, Svetha, while Akshay was sitting at a table in my office reading my blackboard which contained fragments from a supervision of one of my PhD students,” she said. UWA mathematics professor and Australian Academy of Science fellow, Cheryl Praeger, who first met Professor Venkatesh when he was 12, said he was extraordinary. “And you have got this sensation of transcendence, you feel like you’ve been part of something really meaningful.” Camera Icon Akshay Venkatesh as a UWA science graduate aged 16. “A lot of the time when you do math, you’re stuck, but at the same time there are all these moments where you feel privileged that you get to work with it,” he said. Professor Venkatesh, who has been recognised for his work with analytic number theory, homogenous dynamics, topology and representation theory, said manipulating numbers made him feel happy. ![]()
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