List Review Service v1n05, "NMBRTHRY" (January 1992)
URL: ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/lrs/lrs-v1n05
LIST REVIEW SERVICE ISSN: 1060-8192
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Vol. 1, No. 5 NMBRTHRY (Number Theory) 27 JAN 1992
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Published bi-weekly, when school is in session, by The University
of Missouri, St. Louis Libraries. Raleigh C. Muns, editor.
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SYNOPSIS OF ONE WEEK'S ACTIVITY -
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Name of List Reviewed: NMBRTHRY
Location: LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
Coordinator: Victor Miller
THEORYNET-REQUEST@WATSON.IBM.COM
BITNET: THEORYNT@YKTVMZ
Number of Subscribers: 297 users in 21 countries
59% USA ; 7% Germany
Period Monitored: 13 JAN 92 - 24 JAN 92 (inclusive)
Messages Posted: 07
Number of Queries Posted: 03 (43 % of total activity)
Number of Non-queries Posted: 04 (57 % of total activity)
Lines Sent (w/o headers): 155 (app. 7 screens of 23 lines)
Searchable Archives: Yes
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REVIEW -
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The low level of activity for this list is not a negative indicator
of its value. In order to get a broader view of list activity, I
searched the 1991 calendar year archives within which 50 messages
were posted. Slow, steady, and concise are adjectives to be applied
to list postings. There is minimal information noise coupled with
a high response rate to questions in the field of number theory.
The body of postings consisted of queries and their subsequent
responses, as well as a rare request for papers or a conference
notification (3 of the 50 messages). One message notified
subscribers of a downloadable software package, version 1.35 of the
"Pari package for number theory." Sample topics during the review
period were: Carmichael numbers, the rational parameterization of
Diophantine equations, and a request for citation on a simple proof
of the infinitude of primes (Euler got the credit).
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SUGGESTED USES FOR LIST -
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1) Problem solving tool in field of number theory.
2) International contact list for mathematicians.
3) Subject awareness tool for mathematically minded
academics.
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BITNET SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION -
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Send an e-mail message with blank subject line to:
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
Message should consist solely of:
SUBSCRIBE NMBRTHRY your_name
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The following eight mathematics oriented lists were also monitored
during the same time period as NMBRTHRY:
1. COM-ALG (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@NDSUVM1) / Commutative
Algebra / subscription successful / 2 postings / 112
subscribers; 43 USA
2. EWM (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@ICNUCEVM) / European Women in
Mathematics / currently closed to North American subscribers
3. GRAPHNET (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@NDSUVM1) / Graph Theory /
subscription successful / 1 posting / 138 subscribers; 45 USA
4. MATH-L (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@YALEVM) / Mathematics
Documents List / subscription attempt failed: "No such list"
5. PSTAT-L (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@IRLEARN) / Statistics and
Programming related to P-STAT / subscription successful / 0
postings / 57 subscribers; 28 USA
6. SAME (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@FRULM11) / Symbolic Algebraic
Manipulation in Education / subscription successful / 0
postings / 134 subscribers; 34 USA, 15 France, 12 Germany, 12
Italy
7. SOMACHI (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@PUCING) / Sociedad Matematica
de Chile / subscription successful / 0 postings / 30
subscribers; 23 Chile / Spanish language
8. GRAFOS-L (BITNET sub via LISTSERV@UFRJ) / Graph Theory /
subscription successful / 0 postings / 19 subscribers; 14
Brazil / Portuguese language
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Copyright 1992. Raleigh C. Muns (Reference Librarian)
Thomas Jefferson Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121 (ph:(314) 553-5059)
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