[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

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<<In a message dated 1/6/2009 4:38:42 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm writes:


It isn't  necessary to go so far back. A large part of the important 
mathematics of  the 1980s and 1990s does not appear in textbooks, or
does so only  implicitly, because there is little incentive for 
anyone to rewrite  it.>>
 
This is a contradiction.  If work on Number Theory were "important"  than 
surely my new book on Number Theory would include it.
If editors are solely referring to old notebooks, than that's their own  
issue.
That doesn't prevent the rest of us, from using only the newest textbooks  if 
we so choose.
The very definition of "important" is, that many people cite it.
If no one cites it, it's not important.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
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