A while ago I saw a paper in the <i>SIAM Review</i> - just one and a half pages of maths, followed by<p>&quot;Remark 2. The theorem proved here gives a completely new general method. It generalizes all known results for balancing chemical equations cited chronologically in references [1]–[125].&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.siam.org&#x2F;journals&#x2F;problems&#x2F;downloadfiles&#x2F;71-025s.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.siam.org&#x2F;journals&#x2F;problems&#x2F;downloadfiles&#x2F;71-025s....</a><p>Reference 125 is to this paper.