Re: Am I a crank?

david petry wrote:

It could be argued that since the mathematics community does expend a
great deal of energy in the search for formal proofs of conjectures
having ridiculously high probabilities of being true, and often turns a
blind eye to the probabilistic arguments, the mathematics community
itself engages in crank-like behavior.

I have read many heuristic arguments advanced by mathematicians to
suggest what *might* be true, especially in number theory. I disagree
that the community "often turns a blind eye" to such. It's just that
these still leave the actual question unanswered.

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