will Arthur Rubin take the challenge or leave a messy and invalid Euclid IP proof on Wikipedia; can a senior Wiki editor enter and add a Dispute Tag Re: Correcting Wikipedia's Euclid's Infinitude of Primes Proof
- From: "a_plutonium" <a_plutonium@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Apr 2007 12:31:55 -0700
I do not know how long Wikipedia keeps its TALK over disputes of a
entry so I post to sci.math to get that
date time group and permanence.
The Wikipedia page on Euclid's IP proof needs a Dispute Tag attached.
The challenge is that Arthur Rubin's
entry (at least he never denied he is the author of that entry), makes
it impossible for him to deliver a valid
IP both Direct and Indirect Method, because he has the two mixed up as
one already. In order for Arthur
to give a valid Direct and a valid Indirect would mean he has to peal
away his present entry and give some
elements to the Direct and other elements to the Indirect.
So I request some senior editor of Wikipedia, senior to Arthur Rubin
since he is too close to the problem of
this entry, to place a Dispute Tag on this entry.
--- quoting what I last wrote to Wikipedia TALK ---
Although I believe your argument is completely bogus, that's not a
reason for failing to place a dispute tag on the article. The reason
is that the dispute neither contained nor described in any reliable
source, so we, as Wikipedians may not take notice of it. - Arthur
Rubin | (talk) 18:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply Arthur. I guess you are truly the author of this
Wikipedia entry since you do not deny the claim. And I guess the tag I
seek is a Dispute Tag. I respectfully request from Wikipedia to apply
a dispute tag. I can cite several sources that this Wikipedia entry is
error laden. I can cite Karl Heuer in sci.math circa 1994, and
Stillwell's book Mathematics and its History, and several in sci.math
who have stated they believe Euclid's proof was Direct, plus my book
written and published to sci.math on this subject.
But citations is not my best evidence against your entry, for my best
evidence is that you are unable to give a valid Direct plus Indirect
of this proof, because you have the two mixed up into one in your
entry as is. Your entry starts as a Reductio ad Absurdum and moves on
to a Direct method of a prime factor search. And to top it off, you
are so confused with 30031 that you cannot even see that it is
necessarily prime in the Indirect Method. Your entry in Wikipedia of
Euclid's Infinitude of Primes Proof is a laughable and silly example
of one who cannot see a clear proof argument. And it is authors like
you who continue to burden the minds of young people trying to learn
the TRUTH behind this proof. So, Arthur, take the test, I challenge
you-- write out a Indirect and a Direct proof of IP, what are you
scared of? Why burden young people who want to learn with your messy
and invalid proof --- Archimedes Plutonium
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