Re: paper claiming projective planes must have prime power order
- From: "victor_meldrew_666@xxxxxxxxxxx" <victor_meldrew_666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:02:53 -0800 (PST)
On 16 Feb, 16:02, Craig Feinstein <cafei...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
After contacting the author of the paper, it is clear to me that I
misunderstood his paper.
Yes, you understood it as a significant contribution to mathematics,
when it was actually some crankish drivel.
By mistake, I misrepresented what the author
had in mind when I summarized his paper in this thread.
You didn't misrepresent what the author wrote.
He claimed to prove that if there is a projective plane
of order n then n is a prime power; to prove this he needed
to prove, and he claimed to prove, that a certain set of
permutations derived from a projective plane is a group.
Alas this is false. But you stupidly believed Mehendale.
Now, if you actually misrepresented what Mehendale had in mind,
then what he had in mind would contradict what he wrote,
and so his manuscript would have been mendacious.
So by asserting that you misrepresented what Mehendale
had in mind, you are effectively calling him a liar.
In the author's words to me through email, he agreed that "There can
exist more than one nonisomorphic projective planes of given order,
for which each one may not admit group structure."
That contradicts his paper.
So the reference to
"exotic" projective planes of order 9 does not contradict what
Mehendale had in mind when he was writing this paper. It only
contradicts my former interpretation of what Mehendale's paper, which
was wrong.
Mehendale's paper is wrong. No one cares about your interpretation
as you are a mendacious moron whose opinions are worthless.
I'm going to leave this thread
I hope this isn't another lie.
and leave it to others to try to figure
this all out.
We have figured it out: you are a credulous imbecile with a chip
on your shoulder about mathematics and mathematicians.
.
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