Source needed
- From: "local host" <Dorkus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:53:08 -0500
Source needed for following statement; any ideas ?
"What continually impresses me about the mathematics which proves my case is
that it is so simple, and the proof relies on such basic logical
principles--yet people can argue about them, and most mathematicians can
ignore the results! The mathematical story starts with the distributive
property, commonly expressed as
a*(b+c) = a*b + a*c where my brilliant and clever idea (if I do say so
myself) means that you have the distributive property with functions, so you
need to
consider something like a*(f(x) + b) = a*f(x) + a*b
and my dramatic, awe inspiring, and controversial position, over which
mathematicians on this have argued for years, and a paper got published and
retracted by a later keeled over and died, is that the value of f(x) <gasp>
is irrelevant to the operation of the distributive property. Yup, that's it.
Sorry if you're disappointed given the build-up, but my position which is so
controversial, over which so much discussion has gone on for years is that
the value of f(x) has no meaning on...."
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