JSH: Yeah fame is weird
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From: JSH on 13 Jun 2010 11:51 About a decade or so ago some poster noted in reply to me that I was famous and I replied back that no, I'm infamous. But I guess it really is about how you define "fame" and everybody seems to have their own personal definition. But, I am read in somewhere around 120 countries that I can verify just by hits to my math blog as reported by Google Analytics. Search strings around my research tend to be in the top 10 at a level that indicates people driving them there from all over the world. But you may say, you KNOW fame, and there's no way that any of that matters as you don't see me on television, don't read newspaper articles about me. I'm not on Youtube even! How can I be famous? Well it turns out that I'm read in about 120 countries according to Google Analytics just for hits to my math blog, on a yearly basis. A lot of people narrowly define fame around celebrity, and ten around the most visible celebrities, or around some vague notion of it that makes sense to them. But for a while now I've been probably the most influential single human being in the math field on the planet by far. I've actually been hoping to avoid celebrity. Seems it can be kind of annoying. So I've been impacting the math field for a while now and noting that impact, as I try to adjust it to the implications of some of my results and hopefully minimize the damage, especially the collateral damage. It's a scary task. Quite simply I've been re-working the mathematical field worldwide, slowly and steadily, for years now. James Harris
From: amzoti on 13 Jun 2010 13:10 On Jun 13, 8:51 am, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > James Harris Too bad you'll only ever know infamy! Delusional narcissist! No snake oil sales today. The only impact you'll have is a research project for a medical team that is studying how to increase the impact of psychotropic medications! I suppose that does translate into influence, just not the kind you envisioned! You have nothing Harris - noting, with the exception of you crankdom at http://www.crank.net/harris.html.
From: Mark Murray on 13 Jun 2010 14:13 On 13/06/2010 18:10, amzoti wrote: > Delusional narcissist! > > No snake oil sales today. Can we PLEEEEEZE take it as said that yout think that JSH is a "Delusional narcissist!" and Snake-Oil Salesman? You are about as boring as he is with this knee-jerk response. M -- Mark "No Nickname" Murray Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: spudnik on 13 Jun 2010 16:46 if "the world is a ghetto," then a usenet newsgroup is a nanobubble.
From: Joshua Cranmer on 13 Jun 2010 22:54
On 06/13/2010 11:51 AM, JSH wrote: > But for a while now I've been probably the most influential single > human being in the math field on the planet by far. What about Terence Tao? Grigori Perelman (who was declared to be eligible to receive one of the seven Millennium Prizes)? Or the authors of any of these papers: <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2009/eprints/by_math-ph_annual.shtml>. But, then again, you're probably not counting number of papers citing your work as a valid measure of influence. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth |