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No one will ever bother to read this work. Yeah... but what if? Aren't you the least bit curious?
by pdeuchler 14y ago
No one will ever bother to read this work.
Yeah... but what if? Aren't you the least bit curious?
- chris_wot 14y agoIf it is 1000s of pages of work that is unintelligible to even killed mathematicians, then it might take years o someone's life to decode it into simpler terms. In the end, they may find a fatal flaw, or a series of flaws and where would they be? They'd have spent a lot of time and effort to disprove a theorem that nobody was interested in. That said, I look at the fact that there are still people working on Ramanujan's conjectures that there may still be some worth to it...
- nnq 14y agoyou meant "skilled" mathematicians... I hope :)
- chris_wot 14y agoSigh. iPad keyboard... :-(
- ColinWright 14y ago> ...to even killed mathematicians ... I suspect you mean "skilled". > They'd have spent a lot of time and effort to > disprove a theorem that nobody was interested in. Not to disprove the theorem, but to invalidate the proof. the conjecture would remain open. > ... there are still people working on Ramanujan's > conjectures that there may still be some worth to > it ... Ramanujan has a proven track record. Even when he first sent material to Hardy it was ignored, and it was only because some of it looked immediately plausible that he started to check. Every initial check proved correct, and so he continued, growing in his conviction that the author had something with reading. In this case there is effectively nothing to suggest that this is worth reading.
- chris_wot 14y agoArgh. Always get proof, conjecture and theorem mixed about. I'm a baby mathematician - literally starting from scratch because I've realised that I missed a lot of concepts at school.
- ColinWright 14y agoI'd be interested in talking with you - can you email me?