Talk:Aron Simis

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This article begins thus:

Aron Simis was born in Recife, Brazil in 1942. He is presently full professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Class A research scholarship recipient from the Brazilian Research Council. He earned his PhD from Queen's University, Canada.

So is he a researcher in medical technology, a seismologist, a chemist, a sociologist, a psychologist, or what? The reader still doesn't know at this point! That information is part of the claim to notability and needs to be given at the beginning.

He has previously held a full professorship at IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

OK, FINALLY it's starting to become clear, but still it's not explicit.

He was president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society

clearer still, but not yet explicit.

After a large number of additional words, it finally says:
His main research interests in mathematics include: main structures in commutative algebra; projective varieties in algebraic geometry; aspects of algebraic combinatorics; special graded algebras; foundations of Rees algebras; cremona and birational maps; algebraic vector fields; differential methods.

That's the sort of information that should be right at the beginning, not at the end. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:25, 27 April 2008 (UTC)