Sunday, August 27, 2006

 

Playing with random

By doing "research" in areas where randomness dominates, like with twin primes, mathematicians can go on and on, indefinitely—while doing nothing of value at all.

As a racket it is one of the most brilliant ever—as long as people are too dumb to figure it out.

And make no mistake, blurring the lines between what is and is not random with primes can make a huge difference in whether or not some graduate student can do his thesis in a particular area or not, or some tenured professor can get another book out.

It is big business in a small circle of people most of you don't know because let's face it, most people are scared of mathematics!

Making it that much easier.

You live in a world where there is so much information that people have to trust experts.

But what if you made a mistake with that trust? How would you know?

And then again, who really cares?

So you think you know something about prime numbers, and you don't.

So what?

Well, what else to do you think you know?





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