Math society, weird behavior

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 17:06:10 -0800

Yes I do get quite happy about my discoveries and that mixed with my
growing disdain for math society means that I probably sound really
awful to people who don't quite understand how professional
mathematicians and their society works.

I am an amateur mathematician.

I fiddle with equations and play around with all kinds of ideas for my
own pleasure and thrill.

Professional mathematicians push the idea that no amateur mathematician
can do work of any note. They acknowledge that in the past some did,
but claim that was early in math history before all the foundations got
worked out.

Now, supposedly, math proofs of today are long convoluted affairs that
can run hundreds of pages supposedly because all the easy stuff has
been worked out.

Yet my own math proofs are short and sweet.

It's a basic lie that professional mathematicians tell that everything
has to be long and complicated, which helps them get away with doing
what they do.

They enforce that position by ignoring work done by amateur
mathematicians, no matter how noteworthy it is.

I know from experience, as I have all kinds of results, and sure,
sci.math'ers would go out of their way to lie about my work, but
they're fringe people in math society anyway, the mainstream of math
society just ignores me.

So now I've discovered a brand new way to factor that I call surrogate
factoring.

It is like nothing else discovered by Man in this area before me.

Sound arrogant? Think it can't be true?

It's provably true, and it's not even hard to prove it, as you can just
go read up on factoring techniques, and see that what I have is not
described.

To hear posters chatter on you'd think that someone discovers a brand
new way to factor every day, like when I talked about my prime counting
discovery, and they talked it down.

There's a pattern.

No matter what I find, they just talk it down, and how they do so
varies dependent on how easy it is to see I'm right.

With prime counting they can't lie about it working, so they'd claim it
wasn't new.

With my new factoring discovery, they can't lie about it
working--though it doesn't work all the time, yet--so they attack it in
terms of speed or the size of the numbers it's doing NOW as if they're
too stupid to comprehend that early on a discovery of a new factoring
method, might be slow and work on only small numbers, as the details
are worked out, but later blow everything else away.

They are not stupid. They just have a social order they like.

That social order depends on ignoring the results of amateur
mathematicians.

Look around. I'm not really attracting so many posters because I'm
wrong. And it's not because I'm arrogant or make bold claims that are
not true.

Look around you will see that there are NO modern amateur
mathematicians to speak of, besides Ramanujan. He slipped in somehow.

Now then, if you are naive you will just trust people who knee-jerk
knock every math discovery I make, when no one else has made these
discoveries before, and they're in big areas, like prime numbers or
factoring.

Professional mathematicians just have a policy of ignoring amateur
mathematicians.

So here now I've shown a new way to factor, written a paper, and worked
out a lot of theory as well as done a proof of concept prototype.

Problem is, the theory that I have so far says that anyone now can just
go out and push things to the limit and possibly factor some really big
numbers.

Professional mathematicians, I assure you, will ignore my results,
despite that possibility!

You will see. And when they do, and if things go badly, remember,
that's just what they do.

They don't seem to care about the social consequences of ignoring
discoveries, nor do they seem to even care about whether or not they'll
get caught, as they don't seem to believe it's possible that they WILL
get caught.

And I suggest to you they don't think so because they've been doing it
now for so long, and so many major discoveries have just been hidden.

Then again, maybe they're not exactly operating in the same world as
the rest of us, as if you dig a little bit and see the reactions of
some professional mathematicians to discoveries by people who managed
to get *some* news out, then you'll have to wonder.

Dig a little. See what I mean. If you look for the evidence you'll
find it.

James Harris

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