Comment by tacomonstrous
15 hours ago
This is essentially irrelevant to the content of the post, but it's amusing to me that he casually mentions submitting to JAMS as if its acceptance were a mere formality.
15 hours ago
This is essentially irrelevant to the content of the post, but it's amusing to me that he casually mentions submitting to JAMS as if its acceptance were a mere formality.
He has rejected papers too https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113721192051328193
> With hindsight, some of my past rejections have become amusing. With a coauthor, I once almost solved a conjecture, establishing the result with an "epsilon loss" in a key parameter. We submitted to a highly reputable journal, but it was rejected on the grounds that it did not resolve the full conjecture. So we submitted elsewhere, and the paper was accepted.
> The following year, we managed to finally prove the full conjecture without the epsilon loss, and decided to try submitting to the highly reputable journal again. This time, the paper was rejected for only being an epsilon improvement over the previous literature!
It basically is a formality at this level. Many top math researchers now hardly even submit to journals at all and just put up a preprint.
At this scale, peer review happens by the audience. They don't need a journal to get people reviewing their work.
None of this is true.
Uh, care to explain? I have several colleagues that stopped submitting to journals once they reached full professor. They only submit papers from their students for the benefit of their careers. First-author papers, not so much.