Re: JSH has gotten a lot clearer

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:58:47 +0000 (UTC)

In article <eZLld.10824$_J2.9889@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>James has a new entry on his blog today:
>
> http://mathforprofit.blogspot.com/
>
>It looks like he's rewritten his explanation of his polynomical
>factorization stuff from scratch.

No. He is just recycling one of his old specifications, where he gave
specific values to f, m, and u. In fact, the ->same<- values he gave
then. See for example:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c65f87.0310220749.151593ec%40posting.google.com

from a little over a year ago.

 The second half is just a recycling of his latest claims on the
alleged falsity of Wiles's proof, though he has changed his tune from
claiming it was a cum hoc fallacy to saying the entire field of
algebraic number theory is nonsense.

> The exposition is a *lot* clearer now.

It would be hard to make it less clear, but I do not think it is
particularly clear here. For example, do you think "which allows a
factorization into non-polynomial factors" is particularly clear?

  

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