Re: JSH: Two mysteries, quadratic residues still



Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
Bob Terwilliger <RobertUnderdunkTerwilliger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


I do have a theory on what actually broke James' personality. I
won't elaborate, since I have better things to do, but I will say it
seems due to several movies whose content focused on Mathematical
"genius". I believe the first such movie was the one starring Matt
Daemon (spelling?)... he was a janitor or something... I can't
recall the title. After that, of course, it was "A Beautiful Mind".


Not a very likely theory. After all, JSH began posting proofs of FLT
long before either of those movies. ("Good Will Hunting" was 1997 and
I think JSH started a year or so earlier.)


Yes, doing a google search reveals some JSH FLT action April 11, 1996 and "Good Will Hunting" released in 1997. So it looks like this wasn't the impetus of his delusions, but I still believe this to be a contributing factor!
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