Re: Mathematical Fraud?


gowan4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
For a fraudulent mathematics research paper to get past the refereeing
process multiple referees would have to be lax in their duty to check
the proofs carefully. Wiles's error in the first version of his paper
was found because a referee (Nicholas Katz?), who couldn't verify
something in the manuscript, communicated with Wiles to try to clear up
the matter.

This is in violation of standard refereeing procedure. The referees are
supposed to remain anonymous, which cuts down on the chances that X's
paper will be refereed by someone that X knows. (It can still happen; I
have refereed a paper by someone that I know. Of course, whoever
reviews X's paper will know who wrote it, which may be a flaw in the
system, so maybe X's name should be removed before the paper's sent out
....)

--- Christopher Heckman

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