Re: JSH: Contradictory data
- From: Gib Bogle <bogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:24:46 +1300
Tim Smith wrote:
In article <1ea2fec0-0aac-4915-9fff-4b711a945b62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JSH <jstevh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I don't really think you know what you're talking about.See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_J._Wildberger
OK, I see it. What in there say he's a crackpot, or even hints at anyone thinking he is a crackpot?
...Wildberger may be luckier in that he isn't in the United States but
his Wikipedia article just hollers crackpot, or are you about to use
"quadrance" any time soon versus sine and cosine?
Is anybody?
Having a different way, *that* *works*, to do something does not indicate one is a crackpot. Wilderberger is no more a crackpot than
Abraham Robinson was for non-standard analysis, or Jakow Trachtenberg was for his system of doing arithmetic calculations (which I used to use for my paper calculation back in the days before we had cheap calculators), or John Horton Conway is for his "surreal number" approach to the reals.
JSH wants Wildberger to be a crackpot, for a convoluted reason (surprise!).
Wildberger = established, published, respected mathematician
Wildberger = crank
JSH = crank
=>
JSH = Wildberger
JSH = respected mathematician
Extreme mathematics! Tautological space! Harristotelian logic!
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