Re: Moving mountains
From: Adam (addam_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/03/04
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 22:41:05 -0400
"James Harris" <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message
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>I think it telling that people could argue with me for years about
> mathematics at the very foundations of human understanding.
>
> I think it has to do with a human need to fight absolutes; to deny
> they exist, even in mathematics.
>
> Like,
>
> P(m) = f^2 ((m^3 f^4 - 3m^2 f^2 + 3m) x^3 - 3(-1 + mf^2) xu^2 + u^3 f)
>
> with the factorization
>
> P(m) = (a_1 x + uf)(a_2 x + uf)(a_3 x + uf)
>
> gives you a case where the absoluteness of constants is used to see
> what is *forced* upon functions.
>
> In this case dividing f^2 from both sides has to go like
>
> P(m)/f^2 = (m^3 f^4 - 3m^2 f^2 + 3m) x^3 - 3(-1 + mf^2) xu^2 + u^3 f
>
> P(m)/f^2 = (a_1 x/f + u)(a_2 x/f + u)(a_3 x + uf)
>
> which is determinable from the terms constant with respect to m.
>
> Now then, logically if you have terms constant with respect to m, then
> they do not vary as m varies, correct?
>
> Now if they do not vary as m varies, then m=0 is NOT a special case.
>
> It's just one of an infinity of trivial cases.
>
> So see the logic?
>
> 1. Accept that terms constant with respect to m do not vary when m
> varies
>
> 2. Then m=0 is not a special case but just one of an infinity of
> irrelevant cases to the constants as they do not vary with m
>
> That's why my paper Advanced Polynomial Factorization will pass any
> fair and objective review.
>
> So why all the fighting, and why am I called a "crank"?
>
> Human nature.
>
> It's human nature to resist change, and to hold on to beliefs that are
> important for emotional reasons long after they've been refuted.
>
> The educated among you know the stories, like how the belief that the
> earth is flat dominated Europe in its history, or the attacks on
> Copernicus for daring to say the earth wasn't the center of the
> Universe.
>
> Here the math community is challenged with a very direct and
> irrefutable result that kills a cherished sacred cow.
>
> It probably seems easy to fault the messenger, but in mathematics,
> what's wrong was never right.
>
> That means that whether I told you the truth or not, if you're using
> ideas that do not follow mathematically then they do not follow.
>
> Mathematics is a difficult discipline. Some of you are only now
> learning just how hard it is, and you are failing.
>
> Your failure is not one that will diminish with time if you hide from
> the truth, or run away from it, but it will grow, and you cannot win.
>
> Over time, your failure will become none, and even what you have
> accomplished will be downgraded by a society that will justifiably not
> trust you.
>
> Now you have a mistake. People make mistakes. But willfully ignoring
> the truth, especially to teach young minds flawed techniques is not
> something that can be justified or forgiven.
>
> I've mentioned a Cornell math student who emailed me, of his own
> volition, offering help, and the possibility that if I explained my
> work to him that Cornell itself might back me, which would make a
> tremendous difference.
>
> I carefully and patiently talked him through the basic argument, and
> he re-worked it, until reaching the conclusion where he tried to punt.
>
> That was August of last year. He is a graduate student at Cornell
> University.
>
> What do you think are the chances that he will ever get a math Ph.D?
>
> I'm telling you they are nil to none. Obviously I keep his name
> hidden now for my own purposes but as a mathematician I would not be
> doing my duty to the field to sit back and allow him to ever get a
> Ph.D if I could stop it.
>
> That might sound unfair but think about the responsibility that goes
> with the field.
>
> Now some of you are learning that mathematics is not what you thought.
>
> It's not an area for you to look brilliant, or a place where lost
> souls can hide, or just a lot of b.s. masquerading as truth.
>
> It's a discipline where one man, one individual as a woman could do it
> too, can stand against the entire world, and be right.
>
> If you understand just that bit, you may begin to get a grasp of what
> mathematics truly is.
>
> In mathematics, one person can make a difference, stand against the
> entire world, and be right.
>
> I hope I've taught that lesson to at least some of you, as the field
> needs people with a special gift.
>
> I am looking for mathematicians, people who refuse to believe
> contradictory things at the same time, people who value truth above
> all else.
>
You really motivated me to learn mathematics up to this point.
> They are a special breed, separated from the rest of humanity, and in
> their own way, more powerful than any other.
>
> They are more powerful as they can see what others often cannot see:
> the truth
>
>
That's total bs.
No offense, Adam.
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