JSH: What if I succeed?

For years I've been talking about using the factoring problem to force
acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I
demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem
away from "pure math" then I can get people to pay attention to my
other decried research.

My take on responses from this newsgroup at least has been a
contemptuous dismissal of any possibility of my success.

But what if I succeed?

The scary part to me is not the world's markets but the possibility
that the academic math world IS as dumb as I've feared as if I just
trot out a solution that shows that factoring is a trivially easy
problem, and do it with ideas I've talked out over a year, how can it
be smart?

Especially if it has spent the last five years ignoring my proof of
FLT and my prime counting function along with other research?

And, um, can I ethically present a stunningly simple proof of how to
make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this
when the world's financial markets are already on edge?

But where can I go with the research?

I've already contacted the NSA in the past when I was wrong, and I've
bugged cryptology people over the years, so how do I go to anyone now?

But more importantly, how can it be so trivial?

How could R, S and A present something so pathetically easy to solve
to the world as a security system, and manage to convince people?

Should I hide math for the good of financial markets to protect a math
culture that seems to be stupid on a scale hard to comprehend about
even the most basic mathematics?

Or let fly? I think I have no choice but to simply present the
research and let the chips fall where they may because the situation
is so unprecedented that there is no rulebook.

There simply is no right answer.


James Harris

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  • Re: JSH: What if I succeed?
    ... acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I ... demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem ... make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: JSH: What if I succeed?
    ... acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I ... demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem ... trot out a solution that shows that factoring is a trivially easy ... make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: JSH: What if I succeed?
    ... acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I ... demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem ... make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this ... Based on past failures, there's no reason to expect that you ever ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: JSH: What if I succeed?
    ... acceptance of my other mathematical research as I figured that if I ... demonstrate my problem solving ability with a practical math problem ... trot out a solution that shows that factoring is a trivially easy ... make my latest "surrogate factoring" approach work at a time like this ...
    (sci.math)
  • Re: JSH: Your funeral
    ... at a factoring algorithm (or a short proof of FLT, ... article is mostly made of examples) is of mathematicians ... Just math. ... by finding some convincing math and telling us all about it ...
    (sci.math)