Springer publishes crank's proofs of FLT, Goldbach
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From: Bill Dubuque on 22 Dec 2009 22:53 Michiel Hazewinkel <michhaz(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Quite a number of years ago I received a manuscript of Nico Benschop > concerning Goldbach and Fermat (with a veiw to publication as a book > in my series). At the time one of the main mistakes concerned the > structure of the groups of units of the integers modulo n. I wrote > him about it. Also I rejected the manuscript, considering it total > nonsense. I am still of that opinion. > > A book on this has now been published by Springer. Most unfortunate > (unless I am totally mistaken). This was discussed at length on the n-category cafe blog [1]. In the final post on that page, the author (Benschop) wrote: "everyone involved agreed to disable the book's availability untill such correction is done (with well-known math reviewer's input)". [1] John Baez. Springer Verlag Publishes "Proof" of Goldbach's Conjecture http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/06/springer_verlag_publishes_proo.html |