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Pseudonymity in Academic Publishing
The January issue of the Notices of the AMS is out, and it includes a new article coauthored by me, as well as what look like interesting articles on machine...
Using a traceable identity (as I do) can lead to hassles or worse; I’ve several times had the dismaying experience of dealing with people contacting my employer about my edits. I’m in a position of privilege where that hasn’t harmed me, but even so I’m not convinced that this cost outweighs whatever small reputational benefit I might accrue by using my real name. You might think that mathematics publishing would be welcoming of pseudonyms; think of Nicolas Bourbaki, or Blanche Descartes, or M. LeBlanc, or M. Lothaire, or H. Pétard, or D. H. J. Polymath, among many other examples.
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