Dear Colleagues, As most of you probably know, one of the longest-standing and most famous open problems of lattice theory, the Dilworth's problem, was solved...
Dilworth's name is attached to many things, making it hard for those of us unfamiliar with this particular problem to assess its importance to potential users...
Vaughan Pratt
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Feb 1, 2007 5:08 pm
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This E-mail is inspired by what I read about the rejection by JAMS of the solution of a correct solution of a long outstanding problem of Dilworth. I find this...
Melvin Henriksen
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Feb 1, 2007 7:45 pm
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-- Melvin Henriksen Harvey Mudd College Ph: 909 626 3676 Hi, Mel, In my view, this rejection simply casts a pall over JAMS. It will be their loss, and another...
Melvin Henriksen
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Feb 2, 2007 4:32 am
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Dear Professor Pratt, I'll try to reply, though I have no doubt there are people on this mailing list who are more knowledgeable. I would like to invite ...
Markovic's telling of the story is very good. It leaves out a few details. For instance that Thomas Schmidt, one of the best in this field, spent 40 years...
Dear Professor Gratzer, I stand corrected, I did not know that it was Huhn and not Wehrung who did the $\Aleph_1$ case. Thanks for the other comments, as well....
... This kind of reasoning can result, that JAMS will be trapped into the ALREADY existing and ALREADY widely popular areas of pure and applied mathematics. ...
dear colleagues, i do agree with the openion of peter markovic. this has to be condemned by the universal algebra community. hope JAMS will not do such things...
Dear All, I am also outraged by the actions of JAMS. At the moment we are discussing this among ourselves, which is a good thing, of course. But in order to...
Brian Davey
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Feb 3, 2007 6:07 am
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... Only as a first step. If it failed, then we have to proceed to a broader context in interpretation and to a wider community as the target of our message. ...
We are academics, so we should start with a committee whose job will be to compose a letter condemning this kind of academic censorship in general and mention...
Dear Colleagues, I completely support the idea of a committee. George Gratzer, Bob Quackenbush, Brian Davey and the other executives at AU should decide on its...
To correct a few more erroneous statements I made in my reply to Professor Pratt and to add to the information: Bauer proved that all distributive algebraic...
Thanks to all for answering my question regarding the importance of this problem---I knew how old it was, but age alone isn't necessarily a determiner of...
Vaughan Pratt
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Feb 4, 2007 5:25 am
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We should be grateful to Vaughan Pratt for formulating a letter. It is a good start, but I hope the final version will be more transparent and brief. Also, I...
Excellent letter and comments. Some additional observations. I find the second paragraph of Vaughan's letter giving the background very interesting. ...
I at least would find such an attachment very interesting. Another respect that hasn't been mention yet is that the editorial board also showed an extreme...
The daily digest not being sufficiently real-time I visited the group just now. One key point I took away from George's message 361 is that the combined word...
Vaughan Pratt
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Feb 4, 2007 9:08 pm
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Dear all, First, I would like to thank you all for the amount of reaction to this CLP happening, and especially Petar Markovic for having started this...
Friedrich Wehrung
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Feb 4, 2007 10:18 pm
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... will ... censorship in ... it The job of the/a committee should also be to create better written standards for the management of journals. Journals should...
... The job of the/a committee should also be to create better written standards for the management of journals. Journals should specifically spell out what ...
In my opinion, Vaughan Pratt's new letter is brief and too the point. It would have been stronger if I had written it, and others might feel the opposite. It...
Hi, Vaughan, with Mel and Yefim reading "over your shoulder", When I compare your new shorter version to the original longer one, I find myself comparing the...
Fred E.J. Linton
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Feb 5, 2007 6:46 am
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While this is off the main direction of this discussion of publication policies, as students of Dilworth we wanted to clarify some of the history of this...
Ralph Freese
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Feb 5, 2007 7:12 am
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... Should!, otherwise the letter is too defensive. We have to show at least a small amount of self-confidence. Probably that sentence will have an echo. I do...
Dear Colleagues, I would like to add my $0.02 to the discussion on the content of the letters. I like better the longer version of Professor Pratt, for the ...
I just got off the phone with Andy Magid, the editor of the Notices of the AMS. He sees no problem with us submitting a letter to the editor. He reminded me,...
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