> First let me say that I have been a subscriber to The New Yorker
> since the 1960's; I love the magazine, and read nearly all the
> articles every week.
>
>I am also a co-author of Yau's,?and since 1991, and we have
> written 18 joint papers.?Of course, not all of them are major
> breakthroughs, but at least 2 of them can be so designated: our 2000
> paper which appeared in Nuclear Physics B, and our 2006 paper which
> just appeared in the prestigious journal "Communications in
> Mathematical Physics".?It is extremely rare for mathematicians to get
> a paper published in a journal devoted to nuclear physics, and our
> 2006 paper solves a problem dealing with stability of Black-Holes,
> first elucidated by the Princeton physicist John Wheeler in 1957.?
> These papers ALONE demolish your statement that Yau has had no major
> results in the last 10 years.?How could you have made such a
> statement??Where did you get your inxxxxation? Didn't you feel a
> responsibility to check your facts with other mathematicians??Your
> behavior reminds me of the Jason Blair scandal at the New York Times.?
> Shame on You!
> Sincerely yours,
> Joel?
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>
> Best regards,
> Joel
And after looking the paper by Zhu and Cao it seems to me an honest account with the appropriate credit all the way through, and all the controversy stems not from this paper but from the noise around it.
