Re: Do you read the anthology ?
From: mensanator (mensanator_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: 9 Jul 2004 18:07:07 -0700
"mina_world" <mina_world@hanmail.net> wrote in message news:<ccmelf$d68$1@news.hananet.net>...
> hello......sir~
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> It is true that
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> a mathematician who is not also something of a poet
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> will never be a perfect mathematician.
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> - Weierstrass Karl -
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> Do you have something of a poet ?
Excerpts from
THE RIME OF THE MATHEMATICAL AMATEUR
A crank infests sci.math
It is a Mathematical Amateur
And he posteth one of three.
'Why do you start so many threads
Concerning F L T?
It's already proved, by Andrew Wiles,
Just a few years back.
I trust it's true, but twixt me and you,
The proper skills I lack.'
'With nothing more than High School Math,
There is a Proof.' quoth he.
'Hold off, you crackpot loon,
That cannot possibly be!'
The newsgroup is spellbound by the trolling of the Amateur.
The audience opens every post,
They cannot resist the lure.
The nonsense flows and flows and flows
From that crazy Amateur.
.
.
.
The Amateur makes a discovery.
The primes are here.
The primes are there.
The primes are all around.
'My Functional Defination counts
All that can be found.'
A Mathematician offers support and constructive criticism.
At length replied Odlyzko
Who agrees the counting's right.
'But correctness is not enough,
The value is new insight.'
The Amateur inhospitably calleth the Mathematician a liar.
'God save me' cries the Amateur,
'From company so low,
That they'll lie for social reasons,
Even great Odlyzko.'
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.
Knowledge, knowledge everywhere,
The Internet's filled with links.
Knowledge, knowledge everywhere,
Alas, he never thinks.
The Amateur becomes deranged.
The core is rotten: O Christ!
That ever should this be!
They're teaching faulty math
At the university.
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