hello ensiform i'm not impressed by the dozens of books at amazon for the simple reason that they're all published by american research press or other vanity presses i have looked for peer reviewed work by others about smarandache functions and what not and there appear to be about three papers or a maybe a few more but i think that's not immediately relevant as i'll try to state below smarandache appears to use publicly available resources to promote himself very diligently usenet foldoc mathworld at wolfram com and even sloane's on line encyclopedia of sequences all have lots of smarandache related entries sloane's is an interesting case since each entry lists an author and for the smarandache entries the authors are charlestle yahoo com and other possible pseudonyms also the link shown on the fs talk page appears to show him sending unsolicited email under an assumed name this suggests to me that it is possible that all edits on the fs page were made by him under assumed names at this point whether his reputation is well deserved is irrelevant jan utc