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From: JSH on 11 Jun 2010 19:51 The real underlying problem is that years ago I found a foundational error in number theory. So to number theorists thoroughly trained in error there may be a sense that there is no upside in the truth!!! And you know? From their perspective maybe mathematics betrayed them. How many "learning experiences" do they have? With homework and tests, along with years of "research", long nights? Long discussions with other mathematicians? Only to find there is mathematics that says that was all junk? I still can't get over the mathematicians who have simply left the country on sabbatical when confronted with my math. It's like they just have to get away from a while, but they DO come back, and apparently just go back to the familiar. Back to error. I've speculated that the math error actually selects out certain types of people who tolerate error--despite their denial. As it seems reasonable that people with a mathematical intuition that sensed something was wrong, might go to another field or focus on applied mathematics exclusively--thereby avoiding the error. IF that speculation is correct, then the people who gained prominence in number theory, paradoxically, are the WORST math people, possibly worse than the average, as they were instead ATTRACTED to error, and found success with it. To such people mathematical truth may seem to now be the enemy. Having broken brains anyway, they can easily ignore even dramatic evidence proving they are wrong, and just keep doing what they are doing!!! An intractable situation which has gone on for years now. These people destroyed an entire mathematical journal to protect their error. Living in error IS their way of life. James Harris
From: Pollux on 11 Jun 2010 19:58 (6/11/10 4:51 PM), JSH wrote: <snip> Anybody getting bored?
From: Pollux on 11 Jun 2010 20:10 (6/11/10 4:51 PM), JSH wrote: <snip> Maybe we could summarize the average sci.math post: 1. I'm right, you are all stupid, 2. I have a new theory, all the other mathematicians have been wrong for centuries (and stupid), 3. I demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that 1 + 1 != 2, but if you ask details, it's only that you are utterly stupid, 4. I know that infinity doesn't exist, if you think otherwise, you are stupid, 5. Cantor was wrong all along, (and stupid) 6. Einstein was completely wrong, (ah, here they usually don't dare to say that Einstein was stupid?!) 7. I have discovered all by myself a wonderful new identity: a + a = 3a, (but I'm not stupid) and on and on ..... It's just getting very stale and boring, and I've been here only a week.
From: Tim Little on 11 Jun 2010 23:26 On 2010-06-11, JSH <jstevh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've speculated that the math error actually selects out certain > types of people who tolerate error--despite their denial. That displays more self-insight than usual for you. - Tim
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 11 Jun 2010 23:27
Pollux <po.lux(a)gmail.com> writes: > (6/11/10 4:51 PM), JSH wrote: > <snip> > > Anybody getting bored? Heavens, no! But if you are, you don't have to read it. -- Jesse F. Hughes "The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris."-- Larry Wall in the Perl5 Manpages |