Re: My paper, and the cheaters

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:25:10 +0000 (UTC)

In article <y8z4qlwkheu.fsf@nestle.csail.mit.edu>,
Bill Dubuque <wgd@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>The proof is clearer if one first abstracts out a slightly more
>general Lemma as below. This clarifies the essence of the matter,
>namely that conjugates a, b are algebraically indistinguisable,

I suspect that it is that statement (that a and b are "algebraically
indistinguishable") that has led to many confusions on the parts of
the original poster. Consider for example his statement, when told
that Newton polygons could be used to study the roots, that I had been
"lying" when I said the same thing:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c65f87.0305090544.5028fa78%40posting.google.com

It is also, I think, the source of the cryptic claim on the alleged
"over interpretation of Galois theory" in the manuscript.

Not that it is isn't a bang-on, dead-on-target, statement, mind. 

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