Andy, Thank you! I have removed all references to that article from the OEIS. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:35 PM Andy Latto <andy.latto@pobox.com> wrote:

I'd remove the link. This is pretty clearly a crank, and the journal is a "predatory publisher" that publishes non-peer-reviewed work for tye purpose of profiting from the publication fees.

Andy

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:34 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane@gmail.com> wrote:

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There is a claim that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes:

Fengsui Liu, <a href=" https://research.journalspress.com/index.php/science/article/view/567 ">There are Infinitely Many Mersenne Primes</a>, London Journal of Research in Science: Natural and Formal (2020) Vol. 20, Issue 3, Compilation 1.0.

The link has been added to sequence A000668, but if the proof is invalid I should add a comment saying so.

Best regards Neil

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On 01/09/2020 01:34, Andy Latto wrote:

I'd remove the link. This is pretty clearly a crank, and the journal is a "predatory publisher" that publishes non-peer-reviewed work for tye purpose of profiting from the publication fees.

In case anyone's in doubt, here's the abstract of another paper listed on the front page of the journal's website: """One of largest unsolved problems in science is the finding of the united theory, which explains everything in the universe. Scientists explore it in infinitesimal world and super large space. Here I have created a single fundamental theory of everything based on the open hysteresis of electromagnetism. Some researchers had known being whatever secret preserved in hysteresis of materials for a long time. But they can describe neither its mathematical description, nor secret. My theory shows brand-newly the universe from quantum mechanics to cosmology by a simple trigonometrical formula. The origin, fate and the largest structure of universe are described. I indicate that the diameter of whole universe is approximately 60000 Mpc, which equals 195.7 billion light years.""" There's also a paper proving that special relativity is wrong, moving light sources obey the naive vector-addition rule, and the speed of light is not constant. But of course the journal that published a proof of the Mersenne conjecture, a refutation of special relativity, and a theory of everything that reveals the secrets of the universe in a single formula would be incomplete without such gems as "Combustion characteristics of high-density briquette produced from sawdust admixture and performance in briquette stove" and "Investigating manual sprout removal in stored yam: effect of tuber sizes on some physicochemical properties". -- g