[VA] SRC #009 - Pi Day 2021 Special

[PeterP]

(03-14-2021 07:00 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:                  
Last, for a really good laugh have a look at just a sample of modern papers on \(\pi\) published in what they say are reputable, peer-reviewed journals:
  

• Paper A, B and C in the IOSR Journal of Mathematics
    
• Paper D in the International Journal of Engineering Inventions

[/list]All your comments are welcome and appreciated. My own results and comments in a few days.

This is astounding I have to say and now I want to go out and publish papers very Sunday as well. Has academic publishing really come to this? I was recently teaching a class here at university on Space Entrepreneurship and during that class one team build a crowd sourced publishing company for academic papers. While their idea had little to do with Space I felt it had a lot of merit given the exorbitant fees academic publishing houses extract from readers without giving anything back to the creators (or the funders of the creators) of that content.

Now, where was my simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem again? Gotta get that published lest someone steals my brilliant idea...