<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">In the last 3000 years at least 11,000,000,000 human beings were born .
>From Homer to Freud no more than 100 geniuses lived in the history of mankind.
We estimate the probability of running
into a genius when we choose at random a person out of the population of
the world:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">p = 100/11, 000,000,000 . </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The math dept has 55 professors, the probability of a Fermat among us is
according to Bernoulli 's formula:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">1 - ( 1 - p) ^ 55 = 0.000004</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">As we see none of us is a genius. Given our limited capacity, our primary
mission is to teach our pupils and wait
for another Alan Turing to show up. Our papers will only serve to make a
bonfire to warm ourselves after the Yankees
unleash the nuclear war. In the meantime it would be decent of us to raise
our children for a better world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">But we pretend to be what we are not. Publishing rubbish will make us more
important. Those who put their effort in teaching the students are displaced by
bullshit artists. The following case will make the point clear.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Ms Boluda has worked 30 years as a professor. Her students cheered her in
the polls because she prepared her classes , wrote notes on theory and
practice, and attended consultations in person and by email. However, she had
a flaw: she won’t dare publishing a paper unless she had something worth
saying. For instance, she stubbornly investigated the 4 colors problem looking
for a solution without a computer assistance . She had published just 3 papers
and a book in 30 years . This veteran teacher has to report now to her renovation
contest.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">On the other side, Miss Piola is young , enterprising and has half the age of Ms Boluda. Unlike Ms Boluda, Miss Piola has understood, right from the start, the rules of the game. She
knows that the so-called "academic excellence" is measured by the number of published papers – just the number not
the content. So she has joined a
research gang under a well-known CEO of the bullshit production engine of graph
theory, combinatorial optimization, operations research ... Well, useless to
say what the topic is, the goal is to maximize the number of papers no matter
what. However, the paper must obey certain important conditions, namely</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">1) It should not be the 4 colors problem because it might take 120 years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">2) The problem must be such that it should allow the production of a whole
series of baloney.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">3) The paper must have as coauthor the gang skipper. In fact, he has chosen
Miss Piola to produce a mountain of garbage on Graph Theory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Needless to say, when Ms Boluda reported to the renovation contest, she was
drowned under an avalanche of bullshit of Miss Piola, and had to abandon the school.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">This shows the principle of natural
selection at FCEyN : piolas displace
boludos. This trend of climbing
rascals has resulted in that FCEyN/UBA is now at the hands of a Mafia.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p></div>