Re: JSH's mistakes happen all the time
From: James Harris (jstevh_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/19/04
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Date: 19 Jul 2004 15:12:35 -0700
Matthijs Hebly <heeb@iname.com> wrote in message news:<xETKc.45464$qK.28714@amsnews02.chello.com>...
> James Harris wrote:
> > Matthijs Hebly <heeb@iname.com> wrote in message news:<7UyKc.159339$3N6.134935@amsnews05.chello.com>...
> >>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?
> > OOPS! That should be Southwest Journal of Pure and Applied
> > Mathematics. Interesting that the poster didn't point out that little
> > mistake.
> Should I have?
>
> > I think this post emphasizes my point that computers should check math
> > "proofs", as notice below how *protective* this guy is about Andrew
> > Wiles.
> I am protective of: my lovely wife, my home, my family, etc. Why oh why
> should I be "protective" of Andrew Wiles? I like what he did, but he
> should protect himself and his; I'm sure he can. If I understood well,
> you couldn't do it, the FLT thing. Neither could I have done it, ever.
> Difference is, I never pretended to.
>
Yet you act as if you know that his work is correct.
Actually you know what you've been told.
Even if you've looked over his paper, I doubt you have the ability to
check it thoroughly, and even if you do, I'm sure you didn't.
Why didn't you?
Because you believe what you're told.
You are a follower.
James Harris
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