亚洲数学期刊前任编委Richard Brent教授澄清谣言

针对以“[匿名]义大于利”的名义在丁伟岳教授的BLOG的评论中发布、并且在博讯新闻网“首发”的、八阕和文学城等网站亦转载散布的、以《牛津大学Brent教授怒斥丘成桐学术腐败，愤然辞职》为题的谣言，亚洲数学期刊（AJM）前任编委Richard Brent教授近日作出澄清，原文如下（见http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~brent/index.html）：

I was an editor of Asian Journal of Mathematics from 1997 to 2006. On 1 September 2006 I resigned as an editor because AJM seldom gets submissions in my research area, and I did not want to be embroiled in any controversy concerning papers that were outside my area of expertise. Unfortunately my resignation has been interpreted by some people as a criticism of AJM. This interpretation is unwarranted and no more should be read into my resignation than what I have stated above.

Richard Brent

29 September 2006

译文如下：

本人于1997年至2006年担任亚洲数学期刊编辑。2006年9月1日，我辞去了编辑职务，原因是AJM很少有我研究领域的投稿，我也不想牵扯进有关我专业领域之外的论文的任何争议。不幸的是，我的辞职被某些人解释为对AJM的批评。这个解释是无根据的。除我上述声明外，对我的辞职不应进一步曲解。

Richard Brent

2006年9月29日