From the mathematician Jeff Shalllit:
One problem with the proliferation of "open access" journals is the decrease in quality. A good example is this "proof" of Fermat's Last Theorem by a guy who seems to specialize in rather eccentric papers. This paper was passed around to great laughter at the van der Poorten memorial conference in Australia.
Now I am completely incompetent to judge the content of this paper, but I think I'll take Shallit's word for it. The atrocious quality of its LaTeX formatting is, I think, strong Bayesian evidence that Shalllit is right. The LaTeX code in the paper is hilariously bad. It's just fireworks of insanity. To any of you who have ever compiled a paper in LaTeX, taking a look at it should be good entertainment.
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