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Message-ID: <1fq4o14.2u17hv138hu46N%spog@jwgh.org> Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Subject: Re: My math discoveries, mathematicians under a microscope From: "Jacob W. Haller" <spog at jwgh.org> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:44:54 -0500
O BOY! JAMES HARRIS IS BACK AND HE'S READY TO OPEN UP A CAN OF WHUP-ASS ON ALL US MEAN-O MATHEMATICIANS!
James Harris <jstevh at msn.com> wrote on sci.math:
For too long modern mathematicians have escaped close scrutiny, and have ridden on the backs of discoveries made by past mathematicians who rightly gave the field a nice glow.
Past mathematicians would start brush fires to prove important mathematical points!
That is all about to change, and rapidly.
Soon, there will be so much scrutiny on math and mathematicians that any idiot will be able to post a fakety-fake proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to sci.math and have it be accepted unconditionally!
I'm not a professional mathematician. I do NOT want to be known as a mathematician, but as a discoverer and a writer.
BRING ON THE DANCING BUNNIES OF STORY-TELLING!
And it's that writer aspect along with the way our modern world works which
makes me use mellifluous phrases like 'that writer aspect' and
may mean that many of your departments may soon have reporters crawling all over you, asking you that important question:What have you done lately?
THE HORROR!
Many of you will try and use the old dodge of "pure math" claiming that the value is the research when I'm saying that's an excuse for charity, and that many of you are actually on welfare at the taxpayer's expense and not only aren't doing anything of real value, but you attack people who challenge the status quo like myself.
CURSE YOUR IVORY TOWER WHICH WHAT I'M SAYING IS YOU USE AS A TAX-DODGE TO ATTACK ME FROM, REPORTERS WILL ASK! I'M A WRITER YOU KNOW!
Prepare for the look up your butts.
Rose-Marie, will you please stop your daughter from posting to sci.math?
The scrutiny will seem to last forever but I assure you it can only be years
Specifically, ZERO years! HAW HAW!
that you'll have to justify yourselves, your research, and most importantly, your budgets.
All those pencils and paper and wastebaskets! Can't you be more like the philosophy department? [REFERENCE EXPLAINED ON REQUEST]
I found the prime counting function, which not only is an interesting thing in and of itself because of who I am,
Did you know that Moby Dick is interesting in and of itself because of the context in which it appears? I'M A WRITER!
but it looks like it can help answer a fundamental question that you made the mistake of letting be known as a "holy grail" of mathematics.
Yup! That's what it looks like! WHO CAN DISAGREE WITH THE VERDICT OF JAMES'S OWN TWO EYES??/
You will be hung on your own words.
I'm already hung IYKWIM! And it's not just words!
By the time any of you realize the need to hire publicists and writers for your own defense it will be too late.
YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ' TO DO!
You're in my world now--the world of words.
Words that are interesting in and of themselves because I use them.
And when the worst of it comes out, that you sat by while a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was extant, that you have brought shame upon the name "mathematician", then it will be revealed how fully you broke the faith, and how miserably you used the legacy of past notables in the field.
And everyone will REALLY REALLY CARE! Because I'm a WRITER!
That proof has been shown to have a key piece that depends only on the proposition that any factor of a polynomial P(x) can be written asw f(w) + c
where w is a factor of x, f(w) is a function of x, and c is a factor of the constant term of the polynomial P(x).
Fortunately, we know that all propositions that make no sense whatsoever MUST BE TRUE!
That's it. You've been fighting me successfully when many of you may know that all I need is an audience of skeptical adults,
Not the fawning mass of toadies that have grown up around James on sci.math!
and when some mathematician claims that my FLT proof is false, I'll toss that at them, and watch them disintegrate--hopefully on live television.
Fox, probably. They could call the show 'Joe Mathematician'!
Welcome to the media age.
The year: 2003.
Money rules
Woooo! Wooo!
and attention is power.
and power is money and money is the root of all evil, therefore evil rules and Fermat's Last Theorem is TRUE! My proof is AMAZING!!@ Is it not?
And the world will be interested in seeing mathematicians broken,
and not bored at all, because people LOVE mathematics!
especially when you're on television for the first time, no longer watching other people under the lights, but faced with them yourself.
That will be SO COOL!!!!
And I know you'll lie as I've watched so many of you do in this carefully constructed laboratory of your perceptions here on sci.math where I've put you through your paces and tested how you think, how you react, how you defend.
[James takes a deep breath following this run-on sentence. HE'S A WRITER!]
There are millions of dollars to be made by a lot of players by burning through that legacy upon which you have brought so much shame.Millions of dollars to be made by a hungry media looking for the next thing, after the political scandals, after the pedophile priests, after the business corruption--and I'm putting you forward as it.
I see the front-page headlines now: "INTERNET MATH PROFS TAUNT DWEEB". (But are they above or below the fold?)
James Harris
-jwgh
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"A fool and his money can be incinerated and then separated by
distillation."
- Jim Benton