Re: JSH's mistakes happen all the time
From: Matthijs Hebly (heeb_at_iname.com)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:59:31 GMT
James Harris wrote:
> Now a poster has found a minor series of mistakes in my APF paper, and
> I admit some chagrin. But mistakes happen. As an author you can
> write something and for a lot of psychological reasons (and just plain
> carelessness) miss mistakes.
>
> I don't know why I wasn't notified of that mistake by Ioannis Argyros,
> but given what I've seen from editors at Southwest Journal of
> Mathematics, I'm not surprised.
So it's *other* people again who are to blame?
> There are now questions for all the papers published by that journal,
> and it might be time for me to notify the other authors given this
> latest issue.
You think anybody will pay attention?
> Now, even if the mistake had been noticed--as it should have been--...
Yes, it should have been noticed *BY* *YOU*.
<crip snap>
> Now I'm a supposed "crank" with a lot of people hostile to me, who
> have a strong motivation to find errors in my work,
*You* should be the one trying to find errors in your work in the first
place. You refuse to. Why, oh why? James?
> I've acknowledged what are basically typos and given the fix.
>
> But Andrew Wiles is apparently a beloved member of a community that
> wants to believe, and *does* believe, in him.
Are you, in any way, comparing yourself to Andrew Wiles?!? He worked,
for years, in silence. He didn't post every wet dream that he ever
dreamed, AFAIK. Yes he made an error at first. That's possible when
proving a theorem that's been out there for several hundreds of years.
He corrected it. He prooved FLT. Don't *ever* compare yourself to him.
> Mistakes happen. And people can overlook them, for many reasons.
JH's paper happened, was looked over, and forgotten, for many reasons.
M.
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