@XanderHenderson No actually it's for people who cannot even get an existing academic to endorse them for posting on arXiv.
@MartinSleziak Can you point to any specific paper on vixra by a professional mathematician? If not, I'm not sure why we should even entertain it when almost all of it is crankery.
@user21820 Wasn't already the founder of vixra legitimate scientist?
Anyway, I have suggested vixra as one of the strings for blacklist. Whether or not there are some legitimate works there is not really that important for the purpose of this room. (Although it might be an interesting question.)
Maybe one day I'll become a professional mathematician. :-)
@MartinSleziak Unfortunately, I consider a lot of "scientists" to be cranks, but that's a subjective opinion. I want to talk about mathematicians because there is an objective criterion for crankery; namely they cannot write down valid proofs.
I would try to find whether I can find some papers on vixra from some known mathematician. But I am not sure whether it would be a good use of my time.
No please don't waste your time unless it's just for fun. But if you accidentally come across any such papers, I'd be interested to see them.
Because I feel that all those who want to publish their legitimate mathematics would try to find the most 'respectable' venue to do so, and hence vixra isn't even on their list to try.
Ah so someone has had the same thoughts, and a comment mentions one such work, though it's not a "paper". =D Alright I'd better not derail this chat-room just two days after @AlexanderGruber opened it.
vixra.org/pdf/1208.0223v1.pdf is a set of lecture notes on combinatorics by de Bruijn taken by Nienhuys. I don't know if the scribes have tried taking it to the arXiv, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got rejected due to the scribes not being authors. That said, this is the only time I have found anything of use on the viXra... — darij grinbergFeb 3 '16 at 23:56
The question on MO got 2k views and there are no examples there other than the above comment and an answer which lists some papers by the vixra founder. So I doubt that I would be able to find more.
@Abr001am I have responded in another room, since your question seems off-topic here. (If the room owner wishes to do so, I guess that these two messages could be moved to that room, too.)
My impression is that I have seen quite a few questions along the lines of $\lim_{x\to\infty} \sqrt{x+1}-\sqrt x$ or $\lim_{x\to\infty} (\sqrt{x^2+x}-x)$.
