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For questions about publishing mathematical content.

Math is not a secret science, it lives from results being published and communicated among mathematicians. Publications can take the form of articles in peer-reviewed journals, books or online sites. Different forms of publications may require different levels of scrutiny and on the other hand may be considered of different reliability.

How to formulate, where to publish on which topic, whom to contact, how to proceed in general - and how to decide if a result is "worth-while" in the first place; those are typical problems a beginner in publishing mathematical material faces.

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Who is Albert Wormstein?

In Chapter 2 of Ian Stewart's Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into... (New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1992), he mentions a conjecture that "polyominoes of order 3 do not exist" (a polyomino is "a plane figure formed by joining a set of equal-sized…
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Submitting for publication in American Mathematical Monthly

I am a young computer science researcher. One of my working papers had some mathematical content so I presented it in a math department seminar. After the talk, one of the professors told me that he liked the talk and suggested that I submit the…
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What is the best way for an amateur Mathematician to get their paper reviewed?

Good Day All, I am an amateur Mathematician humbly seeking your advice. I have just completed a math paper and would like someone to review it. I'm not an academic so I can't post it to sites such as arxiv.org but I can upload to vixra.org. However…
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Where to publish short notes?

Where to publish short notes which don't deserve real publication (an article in a peer reviewed journal)? I'd press it in blogs but even in blogs supporting math formulas (wordpress.com) it is not very convenient to edit texts with formulas. As an…
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I have written a small paper, what now?

Along my studies as an undergraduate I have written a short paper with some very neat results in. So I sent the paper to one of my professors to get some feedback. He replied saying that although some of the formulae I'd come up with are very…
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Is it ever worth writing a paper on evaluating one expression?

I'm not entirely sure how else to word this, but say I've solved a sum like: $$\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} \operatorname{arctanh}(n^{-3})$$ or an integral such as $$\int_1^\infty x^{-x} \,dx$$ Would things like this ever be worth noting or submitting?
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Ways to get feedback prior to publication

Before publishing a paper, is there any resource to get someone to review/ provide feedback for a mathematical aficionado ? I am specifying the aficionado because I lack any friend/professor able to check the paper. This is the reason why other…
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Using Mathematica CDF for publishing?

I have a quick question on publishing. What do the community think about CDF technology of MAthematica. I am rather interested in using this technology for publishing short articles on a website. Do you find it good? Annoying? Better a pdf file…
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Math operator for safe division

Is there a math operator for a safe division, returning a pre-set value, usually 0, when divide by zero is encountered? If not, in a computer science or mathematics paper would one just say before an equation that all divisions are "safe"?
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Suggest some journals that I can try to publish my paper in?

A little bit about myself: I'm in my senior year of high school, and I have a passion for majoring in math. Recently, I have written a paper that explores some consequences that result from FLT. My question is that I want to publish it somewhere,…
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Citation Style for the College Mathematics Journal?

I can't seem to find any information on what sort of citation style the College Mathematics Journal wants. Also, they say: Use the AMS standard abbreviations for journals, available here. Do not submit a >separate BibTeX file, instead incorporate…
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Am I a pest for asking a journal repeatedly for submission updates?

I submitted an undergraduate research paper back in early Fall of 2018. About 6 or 7 months later in Spring 2019 I asked for an update and got the reviewers report soon thereafter. The reviewer said they would recommend it for acceptance pending…
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Where can I find maths papers to read such as proofs of theorems or progress on the twin primes conjecture?

I am trying to start reading up on maths proofs, nothing specific, I am just interested to see how people have proved famously difficult maths problems such as fermats last theorem or progress on the twin primes conjecture which are just two I have…
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Quoting a published paper

I was reading a preprint on archives (not yet published), and in the introduction the authors say "Following X in [ref]..." and go on to set up the problem. When I went to [ref], it turns out the authors of the preprint actually take three…
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Unfinished mathematical paper

when writing a paper that you anticipate will become long, is it better to publish a small part of it and then publish the rest later, or will that (especially if the paper contains an original idea) give too much of a hint to potential rivals? In…
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