{"id":6,"date":"2005-04-01T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=6"},"modified":"2005-07-10T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T02:07:11","slug":"hmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Long Before BlogSpot . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book I&#146;m indexing reports that the 19th century mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was so prolific that he sometimes published papers at the rate of two per week. When the editors of his favorite journal imposed a quota, he persuaded a family member to create a new journal containing nothing but his own work. The book does not give the name of the journal, which is annoying but leaves room for plausible conjecture. How about <em>Cauchiana<\/em> ? <em>Revue de Cauchy<\/em> ? <em>&Eacute;tudes Cauchiennes<\/em> ? <em>Le contenu, c&#146;est moi<\/em> ? <em>Moi, moi, moi<\/em> ? Of course, today he wouldn&#146;t need a family member in publishing, he could just start up <em>Cauchyblog<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> (April 5, 9:34 PM)<\/p>\n<p>My brother the engineer tells me that the first journal did not ban Cauchy, just imposed a four-page limit on articles, when his sometimes ran to hundreds of pages. <a href=\"http:\/\/scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu\/Math\/Cauchy.html\">His source<\/a> reports that the journal that imposed the limit was the weekly <em>Comptes rendus<\/em> of the French Academy of Sciences. Another site (I&#146;ve already forgotten which) says that the limit is still in force today. I have been unable to find on the web what his supposed family journal was titled. Perhaps an urban legend? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrews.edu\/~calkins\/math\/biograph\/biocauch.htm\">This site<\/a> reports that Cauchy liked to take credit for the ideas of others, who called him &#145;cochon&#146; (pig). They do not observe that &#145;cochon&#146; is also a pun on Cauchy&#146;s similar-sounding name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book I&#146;m indexing reports that the 19th century mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was so prolific that he sometimes published papers at the rate of two per week. When the editors of his favorite journal imposed a quota, he persuaded a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}