Opinions of Doron Zeilberger
Dr. Z's<br>Opinions
Last Update: April 15, 2026
"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."
-- Charles McCabe
Read the following opinions (Listed In Reverse Chronological Order)
Opinion 195: I am completely
STUMPed,
trying to understand how a certain editor of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics could commit such an
unCHRISTIAN
act: desk-rejecting the Substantially Deep, Important, Original, and "(Most!) Interesting to the readers" submission of Aurora Hiveley (about the Kutin-Smithline Permutation Wordle game)
Opinion 194: The h-Index Should Be Replaced by the "Surprise Index"
[Written April 1, 2026]
Opinion 193: Peer Review is as Good as the Peers: If the Peers are bad ...
[Written Dec. 18, 2025]
Opinion 192: For Once Our Beloved POTUS did the right thing. I Fully agree with his new Executive Order to "Make the Mile Great Again" by making it 1618.034 meters long
[Written April 1, 2025]
Opinion 191: There is Something Wrong with the Arxiv Moderation if Such an Interesting Article by Jesús Guillera got rejected because "it does not contain sufficient original or substantive scholarly research"
[Written Feb. 9, 2025]
Opinion 190: Karl Sigmund's "The Waltz of Reason": A beautiful Swan Song to the Mathematics as we know it
[Written Dec. 17, 2024]
Opinion 189: To All You Mainstreamers (e.g. Andrew Granville, Akshay Venkatesh, Michael Harris, Kevin Buzzard, ...) Waxing Eloquent about the Nature of "Proof" and the impact of<br>Computers on Mathematics, all of it will soon be obsolete. Mathematics in Fifty Years will be so different than what it is now,<br>and your admittedly well-written prose will be of only historical (and possibly sociological) interest.
[Written June 17, 2024]
Opinion 188:<br>The American Mathematical Society should not prohibit its members to do TV commercials
[Written April 1, 2024]
Opinion 187: Nick Trefethen's (70-page) Book "An Applied Mathematician's Apology", is an Important Book, not Only for Working mathematicians and working philosophers of Science (as per Rob Corless),<br>but also for Working Sociologists of Mathematics, and Especially for Young People who would really benefit from it. Hence I was very disappointed at SIAM (and the author) for<br>not making it Open-Access
[Written June 11, 2023]
Opinion 186: The Three Mathematical Societies (AMS, MAA, SIAM) Went too far in their attempt to be PC
[Written April 1, 2023]
Opinion 185: David Jackson and Bruce Richmond Should Retract Their Erroneous Attempted Proof of the Four-Color-Theorem
[Written Dec. 30, 2022]
Opinion 184: Using Logic-Based Software like COQ and Lean in Mathematical Research is a Step in the Wrong Direction,<br>but It is even Worse to Use it as a Teaching Tool
[Written July 18, 2022]
Opinion 183:<br>Some Advice to the arXiv Math Advisory Committee: There should be yet-another-category, that of "Rejected Submissions" that would post Rejected Submissions (with the authors' permission, of course) along with their Rebuttals
[Written May 15, 2022]
See also appendix:Why ArXiv Moderators (including Victor Reiner)<br>Seriously Erred in Rejecting a One Page Gem Entitled "Five More Proofs of the Cosine Addition Formula (Inspired by Mark Levi's Perpetuum Mobile Proof)"
Opinion 182: Human-Supremacist and Pure-Math-Elitist Jeremy Avigad got it Backwards! The Same-Old (mostly boring!), currently mainstream, human-generated, and human-centrist "conceptual" pure math is<br>DETRIMENTAL to Mathematics (broadly understood), and Experimental Mathematics is the Way To Go!<br>[Written: Feb. 16, 2022]
Opinion 181: Computational Complexity is Indeed Part of Current Mainstream Mathematics and is Equally Conceptually Flawed<br>[Written: June 10, 2021]
Opinion 180: The Ramanujan Machine is a Harbinger of Mathematics becoming a Science again (and Fun again!)<br>[Written Feb. 16, 2021]
Opinion 179: Some suggestions for TRULY OPEN Electronic Journals: Let's Have Full Disclosure and Full Accountability<br>[Written Feb. 10, 2021]
Opinion 178: Think Twice Before You Submit Your Paper to Pretentious Journals, like the<br>"Open-Access" (but Close-Minded) Electronic Journal "ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS" Since<br>the Expected Gain is Negative<br>[Written July 30, 2020]
Added Aug. 11, 2018: read the appendix
Why co-EIC Akihiro MUNEMASA and Steering Committee Head Sara BILLEY of the Electronic Journal ALCO (Algebraic Combinatorics) Seriously Erred in Rejecting (w/o Refereeing) the Kauers-Zeilberger submission about Counting Young Tableaux".
Opinion 177:<br>Aviezri Fraenkel (b. June 7, 1929) is Yet Another Example of the<br>"Exception that proves the `Rule'" [due to G. H. Hardy and, independently, to Abraham A. Fraenkel (1891-1965)]<br>that Mathematics is a Young Person's Game<br>[Written June 7, 2020]
Opinion 176:<br>The SIAM and AMS councils did the right thing when they decided that<br>due to COVID-19, all submitted papers to their "prestigious" journals would<br>be automatically accepted, without any "peer review"<br>(Written:...