JSH: Math as a religion

I'll give a simple example to explain how Galois Theory as used today
is wrong, as consider a world where people don't take square roots for
religious reasons. So on that world, sqrt(4) is just sqrt(4) as people
refuse to take the square root.

On that world Galois Theory is used for ALL polynomials without regard
to reducibility over Q as people refuse to take square roots.

So consider

x^2 - 3x + 2 = 0

which you can solve on that world as they do have the quadratic
formula:

x = (3 +/- sqrt(4))/2

and they go on about the Galois Group and all kinds of stuff, and if
you try to prove that only one of the roots has 2 as a factor, people
get mad at you and start talking about definitions as they have defined
everything and RIGOROUSLY use mathematics, except for this one quirk of
refusing to take the square root--for religious reasons.

So you find a way to prove that only one of the roots has 2 as a factor
by other means, which relies on the distributive property, and they get
mad, but refuse to acknowledge the correct mathematics, what can you
do?

You can't do anything as when math is a religion mathematical proof is
as useless as facts are against religious people.

I have mathematical proof. I can show how it relies on the
distributive property and put up the proof in a couple of paragraphs.

I used to get amazed when I'd step out the proof in extreme detail, and
note that it relied on the distributive property and posters would
claim it didn't!

So I'd explain how it did!

They'd claim it didn't!!!

Your mathematical society has failed.

You are no longer mathematicians or people really interested in
mathematics, but just members of another religion and so, like people
who are religious versus logical, you cannot be convinced by logical
means.

So here we are, years after I showed the mathematics which shoots down
current interpretations of Galois Theory and brings into question the
theory of ideals you people still use the wrong ideas and still argue
with me, as if I were debating fundamentalist Christians about the
Flood.

If you use mathematics then it's clear I am correct.

If you use denial you can keep using mathematical ideas that don't
actually work, but you can tell yourselves they work, like a freaking
religion.

That mathematical ideas that are wrong are just wrong. They will not
magically turn right.


James Harris

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