Friday, August 11, 2006
JSH: Why it's hard to win here
So I have mathematical proofs that cover wide areas of number theory, and hey, even gave a wonderful definition of mathematical proof! But somehow I'm still side-lined with the crank label, as I build up steam and get more math discoveries—while your math professors still just ignore them, or appear to do so from what I've gathered.
How is that possible?
Because they are frauds. Being frauds they have everything to lose by not just going on with business as usual.
There is one sure way to end all of this, which would be for my factoring ideas to be developed into a practical method for factoring that would crash the world economy, and cause a great deal of pain and misery for people who don't give a damn about mathematics.
And they know this.
The other way is attrition, as some of you may have felt proud of what you thought you knew about prime numbers. You might have been excited by the belief that Andrew Wiles actually accomplished something. And you may have spent time anxiously wondering if humanity would ever know if the Riemann Hypothesis were true or not.
But now I keep hammering with mathematical proof that people presenting this information to you are lying, deliberately putting up math-ese, as I call it, so that they can have careers, write books and papers, and act like they are doing something, when they are doing nothing of value at all.
Worse, they come after people who actually accomplish things!!!
So you may have been surprised to find out that John Nash was so snubbed by mathematicians in "pure" math areas, when he got a Nobel prize in Economics. Or you may be surprised to learn that a high school girl isn't worth much notice, supposedly, to the mathematical community so Britney Gallivan should just be so thrilled that at least she gets mentioned a lot in cyberspace, like, they even put her in the Wikipedia, and oh yeah, she even got mentioned on TV!!!
Not a lot for you who were deluded into thinking that if you had some brilliant idea you could become justifiably famous in a good way, in a world that appreciated your intellectual brilliance.
Only to learn now that entire academic fields are taken over by people who are best described as con artists, who MUST come after people who are not—who actually make important discoveries in their fields—to preserve their power.
Yup, it's a sad world with lots of problems, but the good news is that the system always corrects, and I am part of that correction, which is why the fight is so heated: the math wars as I call them are about the future of the world.
Some of you will pick the wrong side, scratch that, MOST of you will pick the wrong side, as it will seem so impossible for me to win from this position, given what has come before, but that's why the future is such a surprise—it's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
How is that possible?
Because they are frauds. Being frauds they have everything to lose by not just going on with business as usual.
There is one sure way to end all of this, which would be for my factoring ideas to be developed into a practical method for factoring that would crash the world economy, and cause a great deal of pain and misery for people who don't give a damn about mathematics.
And they know this.
The other way is attrition, as some of you may have felt proud of what you thought you knew about prime numbers. You might have been excited by the belief that Andrew Wiles actually accomplished something. And you may have spent time anxiously wondering if humanity would ever know if the Riemann Hypothesis were true or not.
But now I keep hammering with mathematical proof that people presenting this information to you are lying, deliberately putting up math-ese, as I call it, so that they can have careers, write books and papers, and act like they are doing something, when they are doing nothing of value at all.
Worse, they come after people who actually accomplish things!!!
So you may have been surprised to find out that John Nash was so snubbed by mathematicians in "pure" math areas, when he got a Nobel prize in Economics. Or you may be surprised to learn that a high school girl isn't worth much notice, supposedly, to the mathematical community so Britney Gallivan should just be so thrilled that at least she gets mentioned a lot in cyberspace, like, they even put her in the Wikipedia, and oh yeah, she even got mentioned on TV!!!
Not a lot for you who were deluded into thinking that if you had some brilliant idea you could become justifiably famous in a good way, in a world that appreciated your intellectual brilliance.
Only to learn now that entire academic fields are taken over by people who are best described as con artists, who MUST come after people who are not—who actually make important discoveries in their fields—to preserve their power.
Yup, it's a sad world with lots of problems, but the good news is that the system always corrects, and I am part of that correction, which is why the fight is so heated: the math wars as I call them are about the future of the world.
Some of you will pick the wrong side, scratch that, MOST of you will pick the wrong side, as it will seem so impossible for me to win from this position, given what has come before, but that's why the future is such a surprise—it's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
# posted by James Harris @ 20:40 
