Opinion 102: Some Soul Reckoning on Yom Kippur: We Are NOTHING, and we Should Not Just SAY it, but truly BELIEVE It (and ACT accordingly) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-1022009-09-30T10:00:00Z
Opinion 101: The Newly launched Journal Rejecta Mathematica IS a JOKE (but so are all math journals!) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-1012009-07-31T10:00:00Z
Opinion 99: We Need More People Like Aviezri Fraenkel, Who Taught me that Games are Math and Math is a Game urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-992009-05-22T10:00:00Z
Opinion 97: Towards a Gentler and Less Formal Mathematical Narrative Style for Communicating Mathematics to Humans urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-972009-03-24T10:00:00Z
Opinion 96: I am so Sorry, my esteemed Colleagues, K. and L., for "Kicking you Out" of my Lecture, It was <b>my</b> fault for not Announcing At the Very Beginning That "No Outside Work" is allowed urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-962009-02-22T10:00:00Z
Opinion 94: The Human Obsession With "Formal Proofs" is a Waste of the Computer's Time, and, Even More Regretfully, of Humans' Time urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-942009-01-04T10:00:00Z
Opinion 89: Mental Math Whiz [And Very Good Mathematician] Art Benjamin Should be Aware that not only his Night Job, but also some parts of his "Day Job" should be clearly labeled "For Entertainment Only" urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-892008-06-06T10:00:00Z
Opinion 88: The American Mathematical Society's Ethics Committee Should Be Praised for Its Resolution to Ban Nazi Mathematicians, But It Went Too Far in "Disqualifying" Paul Erdös for using Amphetamines urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-882008-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 87: Yuri Tschinkel, The Editor-In-Chief of the Journal Experimental Mathematics, Should Be Reminded That Proper Experimental Procedures Prohibit Faking Data in Order to "Establish" Pre-conceived Conclusions, and that Proper Editorial Procedures Prohibit Faking Referee Reports in Order to "Establish" Pre-conceived Editorial Decisions urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-872008-02-02T10:00:00Z
Opinion 86: For God So Loved the World, that He gave [one of his most talented] begotten Sons, that Whoever Masters His Art of Computer-Programming Shall Not Perish and Crash, but have Everlastingly Bug-Free (yet with short-lasting running times) Programs urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-862008-01-10T10:00:00Z
Opinion 85: We Should Continue To Be Ambivalent Towards Ambiguity in Mathematics: It Sure Did Some Good, But It Also Did (and Does) Lots of Harm urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-852007-12-11T10:00:00Z
Opinion 80: Shalosh B. Ekhad's Reply to the Math Horizons "April Fools" Spoof Where It Was Extensively Quoted (or Rather Misquoted) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-802007-05-20T10:00:00Z
Opinion 79: The Rutgers Mathematics Department Should Reverse Its Unfortunate Decision To Forbid The Sale of Mathematical Identities urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-792007-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 74: Guoce Xin's "High-School Algebra" Approach to MacMahon's Partition Analysis: Yet Another Reason to Get Rid of Cauchy and Throw Out all that Epsilon-Delta Nonsense urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-742006-09-17T10:00:00Z
Opinion 73: My Dear Comrade Boris Mityagin, This is [2006,USA] Not [1970,USSR], So Stop Grumbling About Your "Lazy" Students and Try to Be the Best Possible Teacher for THEM urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-732006-08-02T10:00:00Z
Opinion 72: The Next Term in the Sequence: [Dog, Human, Mathematician, ...] is ``Computer-Programmer for Computer-Generated Mathematics'' urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-722006-06-11T10:00:00Z
Opinion 71: Why Are There So Many Outstanding Fifty-Year-Old Israeli Combinatorialists (and Computer Scientists, and Physicists and ...) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-712006-02-17T10:00:00Z
Opinion 70: A Case Study in Math (and Logic!) Abuse by a Social Scientist: Jon Elster's Critique of Backwards Induction urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-702005-12-07T11:00:00Z
Opinion 69: Roll Over Platonism, Logicisim, Formalism, Intuitionism, Constructivism, Naturalism and Humanism! Here Comes Combinatorialism and Trivialism. urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-692005-12-07T10:00:00Z
Opinion 68: Herren Geheimrat Hilbert und Prof. Dr. Cantor, I'd like to be Excused from your "Paradise": It is a Paradise of Fools, and besides feels more like Hell urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-682005-11-23T10:00:00Z
Opinion 67: Why I liked Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros Ending So Much Better than David Auburn's Proof Ending urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-672005-10-06T10:00:00Z
Opinion 64: Make New (Kinds of) Science But Keep the Old, One is Silver, the Other Gold [and their Fusion is Platinum] urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-642005-04-25T10:00:00Z
Opinion 62: Comparative MathGeniusOlogy: Why Grothendieck (b. 1928) "died" (in Erdos's sense) a Long Time Ago, While Gelfand (b. 1913) is Alive and Kicking (Mathematically!). urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-622004-11-21T10:00:00Z
Opinion 61: Rejected Authors of the World Unite, You have Nothing to Lose but your Anger OR Editors and Publishers Should be Made Accountable for Their Rejections urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-612004-11-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 59: The Rutgers Math Department's Executive Committee's Decision to Forbid Sleeping and Other Improper Behavior in Seminar and Colloquium Talks Should Be Adopted by All Mathematics Departments urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-592004-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 58: `I Saw Their Proof Now I'm a Believer': The Marcus-Tardos Proof of the Füredi-Hajnal and Stanley-Wilf Conjectures urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-582003-12-03T10:00:00Z
Opinion 57: The Unbearable Non-Triviality of "Trivial" Mathematics, and the even more Unbearable Triviality of "Non-Trivial Mathematics" urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-572003-11-09T10:00:00Z
Opinion 52: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and arXiv.org Should Reverse their Unfair and Bigoted Decision Not To Publish On the So-Called Genome Code urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-522003-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 51: It is Important to Keep Looking for
Non-Computer Proofs of the Four-Color Theorem,
But Not For the "Usual" Reasons.
urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-512003-02-25T10:00:00Z
Opinion 50: Tim Gowers's "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction"
Should be Recommended Reading To Everyone and
Required Reading To Mathematicians
urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-502002-10-25T11:00:00Z
Opinion 45: The Clay Mathematics Institute Should Pay Most
of the Million-Dollar Prize to the Anonymous Genius
Who Proved that the P vs. NP Problem is NP Hard
urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-452002-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 41: The British Government Should Declassify Turing's Counterexample to the Riemann Hypothesis urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-412000-04-01T10:00:00Z
Opinion 38: Be Skeptical of Skeptics and be Optimistic about Optimism (and Don't Tacitly Assume that ONLY the OTHER Guy Tacitly Assumes) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-381999-05-06T10:00:00Z
Opinion 37: Guess What? Programming is Even More Fun Than Proving, and, More Importantly It Gives As Much, If Not More, Insight and Understanding urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-371999-04-15T10:00:00Z
Opinion 36: Don't Ask: What Can The Computer do for ME?, But Rather: What CAN I do for the COMPUTER? urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-361999-03-05T11:00:00Z
Opinion 35: Mathematicians Should Pay Attention to History and Philosophy of Math (In Particular to Leo Corry's Fascinating Work) urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-351999-03-05T10:00:00Z
Opinion 34: We Should Confess to Our Dumb Mistakes, in Order that Our Students should not feel bad about their Mistakes urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-341999-02-18T10:00:00Z
Opinion 31: Dave Bayer is Right When He Said That We Should Sometimes Forget the Sacrosanct Principle of Minimality urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-311998-10-26T10:00:00Z
Opinion 25: An Ode to the Los-Alamos XXX archives and Farewell to the AMS's Paper Mentality [And a Postscript (7/99) On How to Improve the xxx] urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-251998-08-07T10:00:00Z
Opinion 16: A propos the BIBLE CODE and its alleged Refutations: Ramsey Theory Has Already Proven that Harmony (may I say God) Exists urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-161997-06-03T10:00:00Z
Opinion 15: Giving Tons of Homework and Grading Tough Should not Conflict with Using Computers in the Classroom urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-151997-03-19T10:00:00Z
Opinion 13: It is Time to Correct Gloria Olive's Erroneous Math Review of Shalosh B. Ekhad's Beautiful Proof of Dixon's Identity' urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-131997-01-12T10:00:00Z
Opinion 12: The Genetic Mating of the `Genetic (Parallel) Approach' to Thinking and the `Cartesian (Sequential) Approach' will Inherit the Earth urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-121996-09-22T10:00:00Z
Opinion 10: Gert Almkvist's 1-Line Maple Proof of a Result that George Andrews believed proved Human-Supremacyurn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-101996-03-07T10:00:00Z
Opinion 9: Rebuttal to Gina Kolata's review of John Allen Paulos's ``A mathematician reads the newspaper''urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-91996-02-22T10:00:00Z
Opinion 1: Topology: The slum of Combinatorics OR ``Don't show off too much, your specialty will soon be Trivialized'' urn:uuid:zeilberger-opinion-11995-05-01T10:00:00Z