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<jstevh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm sure you people want to keep the faith, but come on. How can any
> of these people you think are actually competent and excellent
> mathematicians keep so quiet if they really were?
>
> I like to try and contact some of those big names every once in a
> while, as I try to find a way to break the impasse, which is why Mazur
> and Granville got early drafts of a key paper of mine.
>
> Recently, I sent them some stuff about n^2 - r while I was on my way to
> figuring out my latest result, but got no reply THIS time.
>
> They've learned.
>
> If they reply, I talk about them on Usenet, when they sit quiet
> afterwards.
>
> I fear that they do not give a damn about mathematics, and why should
> they?
>
> It's screwed them over.
>
> These people grew up being told mathematical ideas that I can shoot
> down with simple quadratic equations were gold.
>
> They built their careers on research that my research shows is invalid.
>
> What do they have left?
>
> They just have the faith of the world, which keeps them in their
> positions, and keeps them getting paychecks.
>
> What does Wiles have if the full story comes out?
>
> Not only does he lose credit for proving FLT, but it's likely that ALL
> of his research over his entire career goes out, as not being valid
> mathematics.
>
> These people get shot back to zero.
>
> More and more I can understand why they would choose to sit quiet as in
> their position, would I do any different?
>
> Maybe luckily for me I've been disillusioned so many times in life that
> it's hard for me to believe in anything any more, except what I can
> personally and simply prove down to basic axioms so that there is
> absolutely no room for error.
>
> Then what happened to Wiles, Ribet, Taylor, Granville, Mazur and so
> many of you cannot happen.
>
> If you all had gone through your lessons, proving everything back to
> basic axioms, you might possibly have found a flaw in ideal theory, and
> saved yourselves a lot of grief.
>
>
> James Harris
>
If you really cared about mathematics, you'd be willing to actually learn
something. How do you plan on learning if you don't even try to pick up a
book? If you took an interest in learning, maybe you'd be taken seriously.
Dave
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