It's wonderful to be able to download papers for free from Arxiv. It's the expensive refereed journals that lock their papers behind a paywall that suck. -- Gene
________________________________ From: Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:52 AM Subject: [math-fun] zeta irrationality baloney, arxiv suckitude
Message: 7 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:41:46 +0200 From: Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [math-fun] zeta(5) -- and all zeta(odd) -- irrational??? Message-ID: <20131022144146.GB19908@jjj.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
From: http://oeis.org/A013663
In a widely distributed May 2011 email, Wadim Zudilin gave a rebuttal to v1 of Kim's 2011 preprint: "The mistake (unfixable) is on p. 6, line after eq. (3.3). 'Without loss of generality' can be shown to work only for a finite set of n_k's; as the n_k are sufficiently large (and N is fixed), the inequality for epsilon is false." In a May 2013 email, Zudilin extended his rebuttal to cover v2, concluding that Kim's argument "implies that at least one of zeta(2), zeta(3), zeta(4) and zeta(5) is irrational, which is trivial." - Jonathan Sondow, May 06 2013
--yeah, I thought it had to be bullshit. But the thing is, no retraction has been posted even 2 years later, and not only that, if the ArXiv had a commenting facility, this could have been commented by somebody besides the uncooperative author, but no.
In short: THE ARXIV SUCKS.
I have complained to them for 10-20 years they needed to add commenting and rating, and they always to me to go chew a log. They have the capability to make this have far better refereeing than any journal has ever had, but instead chose intentionally to make it have no refereeing. It is absurd. I think this is an intentional conspiracy to support obsolete ultra-expensive journals, supported by big money and big egos -- what is actually useful for humanity be damned. They have lost 20 years for all of humanity by their idiocy.
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