Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

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Here is a latex style file that enable one to write all the proofs in place, and by commenting out one line, one can create a version with the (marked) proofs to appear in a special appendix. The (top of the) style file contains instructions on how to use it.

And here is the latex source of an example. And here is the resulting version, with proofs in appendix, and another version with the proofs in place.

I am sure that a tex wizard can hack something more elegant easily, but that just might be good enough…

It seems like 12 out of 120 authors of papers in SoCG 08 are female (10%). There are claims that only one talk was given by a woman (Erin Wolf). Draw your own conclusions.

…like ourselves, the rebels had become experts in repairing such damage. Sherman, in his memoirs, relates an anecdote of his campaign to Atlanta that well illustrates this point. The rebel cavalry lurking in his rear to burn bridges and obstruct his communications had become so disgusted at hearing trains go whistling by within a few hours after a bridge had been burned, that they proposed to try blowing up some of the tunnels. One of them said, “No use, boys, Old Sherman carries duplicate tunnels with him, and will replace them as fast as you can blow them up; better save your powder.”

– Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant.

Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.
–Herman Hesse, Beneath the wheel.

The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

– Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams.