Re: JSH: Polynomial multiples

From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:50:05 -0500

On 17 Oct 2004 16:43:46 -0700, jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) wrote:

>If you had even a basic math education then you learned about
>multiples of polynomials--you learned to divide them off.
>
>None of you have ever been taught that multiples of polynomials are
>varying functions that vary with the polynomial's variable, unless
>you're learning from sci.math'ers.
>
>Like P(x) = 4x^2 + 4x + 4 has a multiple of 4.
>
>If some freaking poster were arguing for years that the factors of
>P(m) have 4 divided off as function of x, would you be nodding along?
>
>No.
>
>But when yahoos argue with me, claiming that multiples of polynomials
>divide off as freaking functions of the polynomial variable, you
>nincompoops nod along, agree with them and call ME crazy.
>
>Yup, you are Usenet.
>
>Did it ever occur to any of you how stupid you look?
>
>Barry Mazur didn't raise that objection when I sent a draft of my
>paper Advanced Polynomial Factorization to him. And Andrew Granville
>never argued with me about freaking CONSTANT TERMS!

You continue to drop these names. But you never claim that any of
them agreed your result is correct! (And in reply to numberous
requests that you tell us exactly what these guys _did_ say
you told us a while ago that you'd deleted those emails when
you got a new hard drive.)

Hint, for the 37-th time: Those guys recognized early in the
exchange that they were dealing with a crackpot and so there
was no point in trying to go into the details.

>You people are all by yourselves on this one, which means you have
>managed to sink lower than math society in general, fighting the
>result about algebraic integers and the technicality.
>
>Sure, they were taught wrong, but you people are just plain stupid.
>
>I wonder if any of you in math classes ever go into them and start
>talking about how it's possible for a multiple of a polynomial can
>divide off as a function.
>
>Now that would be hilarious.
>
>And when the professor looks at you like the freaking idiot you are,
>then you can say "Nora Baron" taught you!!!
>
>I've explained the problem with the ring of algebraic integers, and
>even put up a paper draft which in Section 2, specifically addresses
>exactly why you have algebraic integers that pop up, and Section 3
>explains how you have conversion units from the ring of objects that
>multiply times numbers that happen not to be roots of monic
>polynomials with integer coefficients--the technicality--to give you
>numbers that are.
>
>Those conversion units are what makes things interesting.
>
>But how can I explain to people too freaking stupid to understand that
>constants are constant?
>
>You people amaze me.
>
>For YEARS you argued with me, and then I left you behind to go get
>some papers published and there you were.
>
>There you were sending goddamn emails to the journal editors like, I
>don't know exactly how to describe sci.math'ers any more. You people
>are in a league of your own.

Really wish you'd make up your mind about this. We're just your
guinea pigs - sci.math doesn't matter, right?

(Yes, of course we understand that it does matter if it's the
only place you can "publish" your work. What you should do is
do something that's both correct and significant - then you'll
be able to publish it somewhere else.)

>James Harris

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David C. Ullrich

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