Tuesday, August 15, 2006

 

JSH: Understanding "churn"

Some of you may not have heard of the word "churn" in the context of people who go through the motions for their own profit, but I think it applicable to what has happened in mathematics with primes.

Simple explanations are ignored for complex ones that allow churn—continual activity writing papers and even books with little or no advancement, which allows more papers and more books.

Churn is when professors aren't actually doing real research, but continually work over areas in primes in ever more complex ways—ignoring simple answers—so that they can write papers and promote their careers.

I've decided that it is the best explanation for mathematicians avoiding simple facts that give simple explanations for the behavior of the prime distribution.





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