Jim, Something makes me think you have some more comtemporary exemplars of the pee-print category in mind... Dish, dish! - Cris On Dec 13, 2013, at 6:32 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Dan,
I should have been clearer. A pee-print includes only those ideas that are needed for the claim being staked. E.g., one states a result and sketches a proof to convince the reader that the author has a new idea without actually communicating that idea in a useable form.
Maybe the original pee-print was that anagram of "ut tensio sic vis" that Hooke (or maybe someone else who found Hooke's Law first) promulgated. (Perhaps someone in this group could remind me/us of the details of this method of staking claims?)
Jim Propp
On Friday, December 13, 2013, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
I like Mike's suggestion of peeprint -- and I'd almost be that's what you had in mind, or something very similar.
Still, although your question is clearly jocular, I'm a bit baffled conceptually: If the purpose is not to convey ideas, then what mathematical territory could be marked?
Regards,
Dan
On 2013-12-13, at 8:15 AM, James Propp wrote:
Q.What do you call a sketchy article whose purpose is not to convey ideas but to establish priority and/or to mark some mathematical territory as one's own?
(I'll post my answer this afternoon.)
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