Re: JSH: My apologies
- From: David C. Ullrich <ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:17:10 -0600
On 27 Jan 2006 20:05:07 -0800, jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
>I do a lot of grandstanding and talk a lot about negatives as I push
>for attention for my research.
>
>It turns out that to get heard you have to push, as otherwise you just
>get lost in all the voices.
>
>No one listens to you.
>
>People do listen to me, even if it is, oddly enough, just to discount
>me.
>
>However, I have gone from doing active mathematical research to
>understanding my own research results, and cleared out all the areas of
>difficulty in my own understanding to the point that I know that I did
>indeed expose major error that managed to take root in the mathematical
>discipline.
>
>There is a reason for that to have a major impact, and for people to
>feel, grief.
>
>As we move towards the possibility that increasingly there will be
>acceptance of the truth, I'm less interested in grandstanding and
>posting for attention, and a lot less interested in talking negatives.
>
>I am not interested in getting mathematicians fired en masse, or of
>going on some punishment binge for what's happened. I talked a lot of
>negatives in the past, but reality is that negatives don't move me, and
>partly at times I thought I was warning to be helpful.
Hint: Any time you talk about that sort of thing you sound
like a complete lunatic.
True fact, just in case you want to know.
>Who knows if Barry Mazur's career, or Andrew Granville's career, or
>Ralph McKenzie's career is ended simply by them doing nothing after I
>communicated with them in some way?
Here, for example. In case you're not aware, when someone reads
that paragraph they're going to conclude you're a total wacko.
Honest.
>I don't.
One of the many things that we all know that you don't.
Reality:
Even if the things you say were all correct and those
guys paid no attention to you _that_ would have more
or less no effect on their careers.
>Mathematics is a hard discipline. Perfect ideas can escape imperfect
>people, and upheaval is possible in any field. Major mistakes can take
>root and grow, until some person comes along with the tools to expose
>them, and people correct.
>
>Two steps forward. One step back.
>
>But as long as there is forward movement, maybe it's ok.
>
>I'm making this posting knowing that it may not nearly be over. More
>years could go by while I push against a refusal to acknowledge a truth
>that a lot of people don't want, but I feel good about doing it now,
>even if later I find a need to grandstand again to keep attention on
>this issue.
>
>A major loss can do a lot to people. If you recognize the truth here,
>many of you will suffer through a major loss, and that's just the
>reality.
>
>I apologize for those who came before me who made the mistakes they
>made, and for the negative impact of those mistakes.
>
>Like from the comic books, with great power comes great responsibility.
Luckily you don't need to worry about that. You have no power whatever
(of the sort you're talking about: you have no power over people's
careers, no power to influence the course of mathematics, etc).
None. So now you can relax.
> The search for truth is not an easy one, and sometimes those who lead
>the way can falter.
>
>But later there is always another to lead the way back.
>
>There is always another.
It must be a tough life, being Jesus Christ.
>James Harris
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David C. Ullrich
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