Dear xxx,
I think the statement is essentially correct although I can't confirm the
precise numbers or dates.
On 23 April 2006 I received the following email. There was no paper oreven
abstract attached, so it's not clear on what basis the editors were meant to
comment. Since the paper was clearly not in my area did not reply. Later I
was cc-ed in some emails by other editors, but by then it was too late as it
seems that the paper had already been published.
By the way, partly in reaction to this controversy, I have recently resigned
from the editorial board of the AJM.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Brent
Dear Editors,
The paper
The Hamilton-Perelman Theory of Ricci Flow
---the Poincare and geometrization conjectures
by Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu
has been read by Prof. S.T. Yau and he has recommended
the paper be published in the Asian Journal of Mathematics.
I would be most grateful if you could send me your
comments within the next three days. If no comments are
received by then, the paper is considered accepted for
publication.
Thank you very much for your help.
Very best regards,
S.T. Yau
Raymond Chan
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On 31/08/06, xxx wrote:
> Hello Prof. Brent,
> Sorry to bother you. I am just a student who read the New Yorker
> article Manifold
> Destiny. In this article, they wrote:
>
> "On April 13th of this year, the thirty-one mathematicians on the editorial
> board of the Asian Journal of Mathematics received a brief e-mail from Yau
> and the journal's co-editor informing them that they had three days to
> comment on a paper by Xi-Ping Zhu and Huai-Dong Cao titled "The
> Hamilton-Perelman Theory of Ricci Flow: The Poincaré and Geometrization
> Conjectures," which Yau planned to publish in the journal. The e-mail did
> not include a copy of the paper, reports from referees, or an abstract. At
> least one board member asked to see the paper but was told that it was not
> available. On April 16th, Cao received a message from Yau telling him that
> the paper had been accepted by the A.J.M., and an abstract was posted on the
> journal's Web site."
>
> I am quite surprised and cannot believe it. Can you please tell me whether
> their statement is true or not?
> Thanks for reading my email.
>
> Yours,
>
> xxx
>
--
Prof R. P. Brent, ARC Federation Fellow
MSI, ANU, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
rpb@rpbrent.com
http://www.rpbrent.com
phone: +61-4-18104021
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