{"id":118,"date":"2012-11-29T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/news-events\/?p=118"},"modified":"2014-01-16T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:19:06","slug":"alumnus-spoofs-math-journal-with-computer-generated-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2012\/11\/29\/alumnus-spoofs-math-journal-with-computer-generated-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Spoofs Math Journal With Computer-Generated Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer program developed by a Harvey Mudd College alumnus created online buzz recently when one of its algorithmically generated math papers was accepted for publication.<\/p>\n<p>The program, Mathgen, randomly generates professional-looking mathematics papers complete with theorems, proofs, equations, discussion and references. Developed by Nate Eldredge \u201903, it is modeled after SCIgen, a program that generates random computer science papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike most mathematicians, I get a lot of spam from questionable journals soliciting papers. When I got Mathgen working, I thought it would be interesting to test them,\u201d said Eldredge, currently a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University. \u201cI went through my spam folder looking for the most impressive-sounding journal title and settled on <i>Advances in Pure Mathematics<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He submitted the Mathgen-produced paper, \u201cIndependent, Negative, Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied Formal PDE,\u201d which was provisionally accepted by the APM journal. The journal\u2019s editor even included a list of suggestions for revision for the fictitious author, Marcie Rathke.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rathke will remain unpublished, however, partly because of the journal\u2019s requested $500 publication fee but mostly for the sake of academic integrity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatsmathematics.com\/mathgen\/\">Create your own paper with Mathgen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer program developed by a Harvey Mudd College alumnus created online buzz recently when one of its algorithmically generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}