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Bureaucratic World: Is it Unavoidable?

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Geometric Methods in Physics

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An excess and inefficiency of the control mechanisms in the present day societies is commented.

Esteemed Colleagues: The remarks below concern a certain lack of equilibrium in the present day legislation, affecting the life and science, with rather adverse consequences for our work. The disequilibrium seems to privilege the fashionable problems such as the “political correctness”, “sexual harassment, etc. While those are visibly exaggerated, some urgent subjects are left unattended.

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  1. Physics Department, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico DF, Mexico

    Bogdan Mielnik

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  1. Departamento de Física, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Piotr Kielanowski

  2. Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    S. Twareque Ali

  3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

    Anatol Odzijewicz

  4. Mathematics Research Unit, FSTC, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Martin Schlichenmaier

  5. School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Theodore Voronov

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Mielnik, B. (2013). Bureaucratic World: Is it Unavoidable?. In: Kielanowski, P., Ali, S., Odzijewicz, A., Schlichenmaier, M., Voronov, T. (eds) Geometric Methods in Physics. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0448-6_39

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