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Is this for real? It certainly doesn't read like a joke. I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know exactly what to make of this, but I'm very cautious when peo
by sevensor 9y ago
Is this for real? It certainly doesn't read like a joke. I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know exactly what to make of this, but I'm very cautious when people advance new theories about infinities. The combination of grandiosity and animated gifs on the author's website (http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/arithmetic.html http://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/arithmetic.html) does little to reduce my unease. But anyway, how do you accidentally agree to publish a 100 page article?
- sevensor 9y agoI googled up some more context: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/226277/what-is-a-grossone https://mathoverflow.net/questions/226277/what-is-a-grossone https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2497969/what-is-a-numerical-infinitesimal-and-humpty-dumpty-logic https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2497969/what-is-a-n... Seems increasingly likely that this is crank mathematics.
- dredmorbius 9y agoThe paper is apparently utterly without merit. As for the editors' response, I caught this being shared and commented on by a number of researchers in hard sciences and maths at G+, including Timothy Gowers (Royal Society Research Professor at University of Cambridge, maths) and John Baez (PhD, Physics, U.C. Riverside). https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/EamXogFywsM https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/EamXogFywsM (Royal Society Research Professor at University of Cambridge