Tuesday, August 07, 2007

 

JSH: So now you can see

I like the simple example using quadratics not because I think it will stop sci.math'ers from lying about my research but because you can see exactly how the ring of algebraic integers fails.

It is stunning mathematics in terms of impact as well as telling you how a simple mistake can undo over a hundred years of human effort.

Now the good news is that I found the short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem which is how I found out that there is this serious issue with the ring of algebraic integers, and even had a key part of that proof published in a peer reviewed mathematical journal, now defunct.

The reaction of the sci.math newsgroup which managed to destroy that journal along the way tells you how big it can be from a human perspective to lose over a hundred years of beliefs.

If you were Andrew Wiles and someone woke you up to show you my simple example, what would you do?

If he gives a press conference he announces that he didn't prove FLT. And he announces that he probably has no major mathematical results at all.

>From the top of the heap, to nothing in the field, in an instant.

Could you do it?

We are coming to the end of summer. If mathematicians fight even this simple example they will soon have more young minds entrusted to them to learn mathematics, and they will teach them false ideas, yet again, for another year.

And Andrew Wiles can be a hero, yet again for another year, if you let them.

I included alt.math.recreational for a reason.

Some of you do not have livelihoods that depend on the lie, and maybe, just maybe you do care more about what is mathematically correct.

I have years of seeing mathematicians fail and reject mathematical proof with many of you sitting by and letting them.

If the fate of the human rests on any one thing then it is in the ability or lack of ability to face the truth.

We have the ability to grasp so much, and the weakness to lose everything, for nothing at all.





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