Experimental Mathematics (journal)
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History
Experimental Mathematics was established in 1992 by David Epstein, Silvio Levy, and Klaus Peters.[2] Experimental Mathematics was the first mathematical research journal to concentrate on experimental mathematics and to explicitly acknowledge its importance for mathematics as a general research field. The journal's launching was described as "something of a watershed".[3] Indeed, the launching of the journal in 1992 was surrounded by some controversy in the mathematical community about the value and validity of experimentation in mathematical research.[3][4] Some critics of the new journal suggested that it be renamed as the "Journal of Unproved Theorems".[5][6] In a 1995 article in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, in part responding to such criticism, Epstein and Levy described the journal's aims as follows:[7]
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But the main difference reflects the philosophy above: we are interested not only in theorems and proofs but also in the way in which they have been or can be reached. Note that we do value proofs: experimentally inspired results that can be proved are more desirable than conjectural ones. However, we do publish significant conjectures or explorations in the hope of inspiring other, perhaps better-equipped researchers to carry on the investigation. The objective of Experimental Mathematics is to play a role in the discovery of formal proofs, not to displace them.
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Despite the initial controversy, Experimental Mathematics quickly established a solid reputation and is now a highly respected mathematical publication. The journal is reviewed cover-to-cover in Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH and is indexed in the Web of Science.
References
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- ↑ Statement of Philosophy & Publishing Criteria. Experimental Mathematics
- ↑ Foreword Template:Webarchive by Igor Rivin, Colin Rourke and Caroline Series. Epstein birthday schrift. Geometry & Topology Monographs, vol. 1. Geometry & Topology Publications, Coventry, 1998. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".
- ↑ a b James Robert Brown. Philosophy of Mathematics: Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures. Taylor & Francis, 1999. Template:ISBN; pages 186–187.
- ↑ William Bown. New-wave mathematics: A new generation of mathematicians is rebelling against the ancient tradition of theorem and proof.New Scientist. August 3, 1991
- ↑ Ursula Martin. Computers, Reasoning and Mathematical Practice. Computational Logic: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational Logic, Held in Marktoberdorf, Germany, July 29 – August 10, 1997. (U. Berger and H. Schwichtenberg, editors), pp. 301–346. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. Template:ISBN; page 326.
- ↑ J. Horgan, The death of proof, Scientific American, Vol. 269 (1993), Issue 4, pp. 92–103
- ↑ David Epstein and Silvio Levy. Experimentation and Proof in Mathematics. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. vol. 42 (1995), no. 6, pp. 670–674
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External links
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