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The growth of mathematics is producing discontent: The inflation rate per annum is pushing 10 per cent. Faced with so much information, it’s not easy to succeed In locating any theorem that you appear to need. Our plethora of indices can leave you in the lurch, For it takes less time to prove it than to go and make a search. I can offer a solution, but it’s totally upsetting: We need to introduce a way of constantly forgetting The results that won’t be needed for another 20 years, At the end of which they’ll surface with appropriate loud cheers, While the ones that won’t be needed till forever and a day, Once their authors get their tenure will be firmly thrown away.
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Boas, R.P. (1991). Early Days at Mathematical Reviews. In: Ewing, J.H., Gehring, F.W. (eds) PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6_9
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