Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Farooq Kperogi: Mathematical” Enoch Opeyemi and the Making of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er

a 419 conference! wonder what their topics were
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On 11/21/15 8:06 AM, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series wrote:

Snippet from Farooq Kperogi's piece: "Now, Opeyemi's only evidence for claiming to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a paper on the puzzle at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria. Well, it has turned out that the conference itself may be a borderline scam operation. An August 20, 2011 blog post titled "Fake Paper Accepted by Nina Ringo's Vienna Conference" revealed that a scientist by the name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the genuineness of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) decided to test his suspicion by submitting a fake, worthless, nonsensical paper to the conference to see if it would be accepted or rejected. The researcher's hunch was accurate: the ICMC in Vienna appears to be an elaborate, money-making scholarly scam. His paper was accepted even though it was intentionally nonsensical. "The conference claims that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT they are not," the researcher wrote. "A fake paper was submitted for evaluation to intercomp2011@gmail.com on Sun, Jan 2, 2011. The notification of acceptance was received on Sun, Jan 9, 2011." That's just one week of "peer review."

http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2015/11/mathematical-enoch-opeyemi-and-making.html?m=1

- Ikhide

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