Friday, December 08, 2006
JSH: Remember context
I've said a lot of things over the years but remember I was working at a difficult task where for a long time there was little room to think I would succeed and later after I succeeded I was facing tremendous denial from others, lots of abuse on the newsgroups, and my own self-doubts.
Besides 'talking trash' is in some ways part of extreme mathematics.
Kind of like a tool to keep yourself psyched up, and a lot of my posts were meant to be entertaining or just to blow off steam.
So remember context. Don't read too seriously into past posts of mine, especially about consequences.
A subtle error in number theory from over a hundred years ago is just so far out there that there is no rule book.
We are all in new territory here today.
Besides 'talking trash' is in some ways part of extreme mathematics.
Kind of like a tool to keep yourself psyched up, and a lot of my posts were meant to be entertaining or just to blow off steam.
So remember context. Don't read too seriously into past posts of mine, especially about consequences.
A subtle error in number theory from over a hundred years ago is just so far out there that there is no rule book.
We are all in new territory here today.