Reading this I remembered that in school many years ago we had to read Everett's famous paper *Generalized Lagrange Multiplier Method for Solving Problems of Optimum Allocation of Resources* from 1963. I tried to find the paper online to re-read it but I could not find an ungated copy, only a request to pay 30 dollars for a copy. It angered me that someone other than the author has locked up the work of this genius and requires you to pay a toll to see it. He did not profit from his work, as you said, but someone else does (even 60 years after publication). We need a better way to access important scientific and technical works than the existing journals system...
Most interesting thing I have ever read on substack.
Reading this I remembered that in school many years ago we had to read Everett's famous paper *Generalized Lagrange Multiplier Method for Solving Problems of Optimum Allocation of Resources* from 1963. I tried to find the paper online to re-read it but I could not find an ungated copy, only a request to pay 30 dollars for a copy. It angered me that someone other than the author has locked up the work of this genius and requires you to pay a toll to see it. He did not profit from his work, as you said, but someone else does (even 60 years after publication). We need a better way to access important scientific and technical works than the existing journals system...
Is it #6 on the list?
http://www.hpca.ual.es/~jjsanchez/references/
Yes, that's it. You found it, thanks!
I love this, Paul. Thanks.