Re: Simple answer, surrogate factoring
From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 03/05/05
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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:43:36 +0100
jstevh@msn.com writes:
> I know it is for some people, and that's important to me as more than
> anything else I want to get to the bottom of this and understand it.
>
> To me people who can figure out what I'm doing are more valuable than
> people who need extreme detail, as those people are more likely to be
> able to test or critique.
>
> More than anything else I need people who are capable of pointing out
> mistakes in my reasoning, or testing out the ideas themselves.
I think this is a great method. Most of us work on presenting our
proofs so clearly that we can see our own mistakes, but this method
would needlessly slow James's progress. So, instead he presents
merely a shell of an argument and demands that his respondents find a
flaw in every possible clarification of that shell. If they cannot,
then surely the shell is correct and probably the respondents will
have found the clarification that witnesses is correctness.
JSH learned more from Fermat than I realized.
Wait. I take it all back. This isn't a new and clever method. I
think JSH has just re-invented the professor/grad student relationship
for Usenet.
-- "All that 'shock and awe' stuff we've just dumped onto the Asian part of this earth - could we have fractured something? Perhaps the earth was just reacting to something that man has done to injure it. The earth is organic, you know. It can be hurt." -- A chatroom explanation of the Dec. 2004 tsunami.
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