Exceptional MathReviews - page 2

To make the page look a little cleaner, I've separated the following related material into a a second page.

The B List: Reviews of interesting papers

MR0028851 Rankin on Mac Fhraing. Any paper in Gaelic is alright in my book. Note, the reviewer (R.A. Rankin) = the author (Rob Alasdair Mac Fhraing).

MR1739144 I'm sad that there's no review of this item.

MR1619764 Another example where the reviewer is an author.

And beyond...

The Life of Mathematical Reviews, 1997 Notices article, see the "MR Folklore: Unflattering Reviews" segment

Langlands' review of Euclid's Window

Wikipedia on Marcu

Plagiarism again: Sreenivas and Srinivas, with an update on Marcu

Contest Results

On June 24, 2006: I posted the following challenge:

I will award small prizes (maybe in Spring 2007 when I think of something good) for each of the following three/six categories:

1. Finding the paper on MathSciNet with the most references.
Best so far: Book ?; Paper 232 (Yau, Review of Geometry and Analysis)
2. Finding the paper on MathSciNet with the most reference citations
Best so far: Book 1731 (Gilbarg & Trudinger); Paper 430 (Gromov, Hyperbolic Groups)
3. Finding the review on MathSciNet with the most review citations
Best so far: Book 74 (Connes); Paper 87 (Wiles, Modular elliptic curves...)

I never really officially the contest, though due to lack of contributions it seems to be effectively ended, with the results being listed above (the papers/books/reviews being likely close to correct, and the number references dating from sometime near the end of 2006). I have so far not made good on my claims of awarding prizes, as 1) no good prizes came to mind so far, and 2) no one seems to care. If you have any ideas of one or the other, please email me.

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