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- From: leemike@eecg.toronto.edu (Michael Lee)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Detecting crackpots - for laymen?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.025927.28395@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:59:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: jarvis.1992Nov18.025927.28395
- References: <1541700002@gn.apc.org> <1992Nov17.231944.13221@meteor.wisc.edu> <1992Nov18.064129.25859@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov18.064129.25859@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.231944.13221@meteor.wisc.edu> tobis@meteor.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:
- >>I call your attention to his "proof" that 1/(1 + z + z^2)
- >>is unequal to 1/(z^2 + z + 1), for instance.
- >
- >If there's something wrong with Abian's proof of the FTA, it isn't
- >that. He had supposed (a case of) the FTA was false in order to arrive
- >at a contradiction. That 1/(1 + z + z^2) is unequal to 1/(z^2 + z + 1)
- >was that contradiction.
- >
- >My only complaint with the proof is that it used a lemma I hadn't
- >seen. I'm assuming this lemma conceals the bulk of the real proof, but
- >that's just a layman's guess. Anyone know for sure?
- >--
- >Vaughan Pratt A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
-
- I usually avoid reading Abian's postings simply because he seemed to
- basically post, ad nauseum, about his time/inertia/energy idea, granted
- his postings were a response to a number of protests, nevertheless, his
- replies became uninteresting very quickly. However, I've become interested
- in Abian's responses once again; since I've probably missed all of them, I
- wonder whether anyone would be willing to email, repost Abian's proof
- of FTA, or merely blurt out the lemma that V. Pratt mentions above.
- regards,
- michael lee
-