Fake "Referee Report" of Experimental Mathematics Submission

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From yuri.tschinkel@googlemail.com  Fri Feb  1 22:09:42 2008

Dear Prof. Zeilberger,

First of all, please be assured that, without knowing you personally,
I greatly admire you for many brilliant contributions to mathematics and for
your responsible service to the mathematical community, as a member of
several
editorial boards and organizing committees. I am aware of your strong
dedication to
Experimental Mathematics, to the field and to the journal. Going through
the records I saw that you gave advice on several submissions to the
journal.
We greatly appreciate your support and look forward to continuing our
fruitful collaboration.


Here are some remarks concerning your paper with Thanatipanonda.

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1. The manuscript lacks basic structural elements of a mathematical paper:
introduction to the problem, motivation, definition of main terms,
statements of results, conclusions. It reads like a comment to a computer
program.

2. The paper is incoherent:
   p. 2. I cannot make sense of the second half of the page. E.g.,
    "We will not use any shorthand notation..." - why is this relevant?
   Comments on p. 3 (e.g., "we believe that present methodology...")
   belong in the introduction; you never say what the method IS and what
exactly you explain through examples.
   p. 7 "We now turn our attention to class B. ... We will discuss this in
the appendix".
   Please read your Section 4.

3. The paper is written in a very casual style:
  p. 3 mere number crunching / if we are lucky / the beauty and novelty of
our approach / dramatically /
  p. 5, 6  crank out data
  p. 7 ellbow-room
  p. 9 "One could find conjectures by hand and feed them to the subfunctions
in Prove" - what does this mean?


Finally, please check the spelling:

p. 2  lend on a square
p. 4  ...then it return NULL
p. 7 recurrnces

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I cannot agree that this paper is "... one of your greatest masterpieces...
".
In my opinion, the paper is not suitable for publication in Experimental
Mathematics
in its present form.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Yuri Tschinkel
Editor-in-Chief
Experimental Mathematics

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