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It doesn't sound like Sacks had a "life-long enjoyment of this area of mathematics" from the article: > Sacks mentions another algorithm to test numbers for >
by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
It doesn't sound like Sacks had a "life-long enjoyment of this area of mathematics" from the article:
> Sacks mentions another algorithm to test numbers for
> primeness. But his description only shows that he has no
> real mathematical knowledge that matters in this case.
- judk 11y agoEnjoyment is different from understanding. Sachs career was all about studying (psychiatric) mysteries that were incomprehensible. It possibly gave him or fed his magical thinking, which can fly under the radar in psychiatry, but can't survive educated scrutiny in mathematics. He probably did love prime numbers, and discussed it with nonmathematicians who didn't see his mistskes.