PERFECTION

Academic papers (or research papers) are not supposed to be perfection. They represent in some cases the birth of new ideas in the various disciplines, they are by their nature tentative and approximate.......After enough approximate research papers (or academic papers) are published on a given subject, someone, usually the lead scientist in the field, gathers together the approximate papers in the field and writes a monograph. For example, A.F. Wells wrote and published about a dozen approximate papers on "three dimensional nets" in the 50's and 60's and then he wrote his masterpiece monograph entitled "Three Dimensional Nets and Polyhedra" which was then published in 1977. You are well aware of what I am talking about here because you went through my sometimes sloppy and sometimes approximate work and you cited it prominently in "Homo Citans" with Proserpio and the Russian scientists. And it came out in the way you took my sloppy preprints seriously as well before they were ever published as imperfect research papers.....You are able to see the value in things before the general public can appreciate it.