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@johncarlosbaez Never underestimate a news writers ability to mangle science. W… |
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@jannem "His new method to solve polynomials also avoids radicals and irra… |
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@johncarlosbaez "...the proof for the method is, ultimately, based on math… |
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@johncarlosbaez I used to watch his YouTube videos, but I got gradually disillu… |
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@johncarlosbaez They should make him a honorary retired engineer 🤭 |
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@johncarlosbaez when I read it a few days ago, my impression was that the newsp… |
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@BartoszMilewski @johncarlosbaez I think he has a fair point in rejecting the c… |
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@petealexharris - I see no signs that he's smart enough to understand uncom… |
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@ilsk - yes, that's what I mean. I used to take EurekAlert seriously, but … |
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@johncarlosbaez @jannem I think it is a little unfair to try to infer the conte… |
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@johncarlosbaez I was also annoyed by this, but the paper, in AMM (and open acc… |
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@johncarlosbaez Do I understand his argument correctly that he doesn’t like i… |
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@johncarlosbaez actually, I found the article itself quite interesting. It cont… |
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@johncarlosbaez Is it nonsense though? I mean, any more than any other strongly… |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh goodie, Wildberger *grabs popcorn* |
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@johncarlosbaez What kind of math do you get if irrationals are out of bounds? … |
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@johncarlosbaez @jannem Yeah that was the bit that also raised my eyebrows. Us… |
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@johncarlosbaezEvery infinite decimal is a power series evaluated at x=1/10 (ti… |
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@RobJLow - intelligent finitists and constructivists are doing sophisticated ma… |
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@johncarlosbaez So what's his take on imaginary and complex numbers?Leopold… |
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@tokensane - I really don't want to know his take on anything! I like mat… |
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@johncarlosbaez @jannem Full disclosure: I studied with Prof. Wildberger in the… |
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@johncarlosbaez @jannem (If your main point was that that was a terrible press … |
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@mdreid - yes, I only read the press release. The paper seems okay at first gl… |
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Even if ∛7 was such an exotic object (it's not), why should it be bad to … |
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@johncarlosbaez Wildberger doesn’t go far enough. When we assume 1/3 'exi… |
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@johncarlosbaez We could send him to Ancient Greece and he would feel at home. … |
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@jeanas @johncarlosbaez Yes, my understanding is they have even figured out how… |
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@johncarlosbaez What confuses me, and I think I might be misunderstanding somet… |
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@johncarlosbaez wildberger crops up every now and then. I first learnt algebrai… |
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@liamoc - interesting! Yes, it could be tough having a math prof who doubted c… |
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@pschwahn - I don't know much about him, but he doesn't seem to have a … |
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This is a followup to my complaint about the EurekAlert! announcement that Wild… |
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@johncarlosbaez Hype can make it around the world before informed commentary ha… |
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@RobJLow - read the paper??? That would take too much work.In case anyone care… |
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@oldclumsy_nowmad - you are right. Pythagoras solved this problem by becoming … |
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@johncarlosbaez @RobJLow Wait, I just sent them an angry email thinking, they w… |
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@johncarlosbaez I rather like Norman Wildberger's ideas ... |
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@JordiGH - Wildberger's original article could have merit: I haven't ch… |
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@johncarlosbaez I really think this is great...LLM training material. |
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grothendieck is just hugely smarter cheater like chatAI.and mumford!?how do ord… |
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@johncarlosbaez @JordiGH If he's just a finitist (don't believe that in… |
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@robinadams - Also, and you hinted strongly at this: if he's a finitist, wh… |
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@johncarlosbaez @robinadams So, confession time: if a theorem says something ex… |
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@JordiGH - that doesn't make you a finitist. That makes you an intuitionis… |
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@johncarlosbaez probably, as in some famous literary example, only the answer w… |
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@highergeometer @johncarlosbaez That started me thinking.Why would that be nons… |
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@sibrosan @highergeometer @johncarlosbaez Are you quite sure that the ducks exi… |
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@andrejbauer @sibrosan @highergeometer - Once we're writing philosophy pape… |
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@robinadams @johncarlosbaez @JordiGH I discovered this guy on YouTube around th… |
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@ToucanIan - I'm glad you quickly became disillusioned with Wildberger. As… |
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@johncarlosbaez @andrejbauer @MartinEscardo Martin has helped me a lot. And And… |
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@johncarlosbaez @JordiGH It looks a bit like earlier stuff of his (which I hadn… |
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@RobJLow - His official web page at UNSW Sydney says he's an "honorary… |
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@johncarlosbaez @RobJLow it just means you are not paid. Some might be willing … |
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@johncarlosbaez @robinadams @JordiGH This is my main gripe about his (ultra)fin… |
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@johncarlosbaez @robinadams @JordiGHIn particular, there's a bunch of work … |
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@johncarlosbaez @JordiGHNot that the article explains it clearly, but I think w… |
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@johncarlosbaez @andrejbauer @sibrosan @highergeometer FOOK:Who are you anyway?… |
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@TobyBartels - those sound like excellent guesses, though if some computation r… |
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@johncarlosbaez Looking at the references in the paper, it cites an 1855 self-p… |
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@JordiGH @johncarlosbaez @RobJLow That's also my guess after having skimme… |
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@lechaviro @JordiGH @RobJLow - Wilberger has a talent for publicity. If he had… |
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@johncarlosbaezI have encountered this Wildberger before. In YouTube, where he … |
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@pj1001 - being a mathematician I can say quite a lot about 10^10000-1. For ex… |
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@johncarlosbaezProf Wildebrger likes attention! |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh I reckon he's a smart guy. He's a real working mathe… |
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@petealexharris @johncarlosbaez "... a real working mathematician, not a s… |
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@wrog @johncarlosbaez I think there's a distinction between fiercely occupy… |
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@petealexharris @johncarlosbaez So... I'll admit I haven't exactly been… |
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@petealexharris @johncarlosbaez "haven't exactly been keeping up with … |
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@wrog @johncarlosbaez Same :) |
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@wrog wrote:"And I think it SHOULD be something of a red flag when models … |
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@petealexharris @johncarlosbaez (*) Going against the grain in areas that depen… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris "where did you get this idea?"From ac… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris Gott (astrophyics) gave a lecture on galactic r… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris Contrast this to what was happening in my intro… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris And I'm **NOT** saying that (1981-era) part… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris Astrophysicists do the best they can with what … |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris ... and yes that was 40+ years ago, the point a… |
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@johncarlosbaez @petealexharris ... and perhaps this *is* more of a sin of popu… |
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@wrog - you haven't provided evidence that "models change wildly every… |
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@ArtHarg @johncarlosbaez It seems that way. In the explainer article:"Appr… |
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