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Monday, July 30, 2018

Importance of certifying authority

Have various claims like I claim to have a degree in physics from Vanderbilt University. And also claim to be a US military veteran as served some years working primarily in medical centers. Regardless of what I claim though, much depends on what others certify, where in those cases is straightforward.

So Vanderbilt University is the certifying authority as to my physics degree, and the US Government is the certifying authority about my status as a military veteran. But what about with math?

Let us say for an analogy that I show up at some agency of some kind and wish to get benefits as a veteran, and that agency checks and because of a mistake the US Government does NOT certify my status as a veteran.

Then of course I would not get those benefits at that time.

And what could I do then? Could protest. Might claim is a mistake! But would have to work to get the proper facts certified to have anything happen.

Which of course is a scenario that has not happened. Just found relevant to consider what I might try if it did.

In actuality, when needed both the US Government and Vanderbilt University have certified. And thinking about this post realized I took it for granted! But now I don't. Is a deep thing really and much appreciated.

And for so many am sure relying on a certifying authority is something that happens routinely for them.

With mathematics the certifying authorities are leading mathematicians around the world. And presumably when presented with an important major mathematical discovery they would certify that discovery as one.

(Should at least mention web authority, but also to note to my knowledge is not officially recognized as a certifying authority. However is extremely important in my story! So deserves this aside.)

Notice the mathematical discovery should drive the certification as the knowledge is what is important.

If leading mathematicians do NOT certify a result as a major discovery then reasonable people can presume that it is not.

So when you work through how things are supposed to work, you can realize my job does end with a mathematical discovery once shared--if I've made one.

One reason to make this post is to clarify my own position that refusal to acknowledge my major results is a social problem which I will not address directly until 2028. That has to do with audience for a particular post. Because was concerned was making posts which were trying to be convincing to certifying authorities.

Instead now my posts are meant for people who can check my math for themselves who also might wonder how discovery can not be properly recognized. And reality is: I wonder as well.

But main point is, is not about me there.

Also helps you understand limitations on what I can do with such behavior.

So will not address people who SHOULD behave certain ways with mathematical discovery until 2028, with posts here. Which is just about the intended audience for my posts.

The behavior has gone on for more than a decade so yeah, I should think also about others who may wonder about it. However posts that talk certain things should NOT be making a case or trying to be convincing to math people who I think are behaving badly. That is what is not to be done further for now until 2028, if necessary then.

Have put LOTS of my explanation out already though, where tried to put all under label: social problem

So if curious for what have already written on subject clicking on that label below is a way to get lots.

Which lets me talk things as settled when I know they are. And discuss my mathematical discovery in a more fulfilling way.

Is more fun for me that way, can be helpful for others, while also lets me talk about whatever, as long as am NOT trying to make a case. Am at best sharing facts as I know them to an interested audience.


James Harris

Friday, July 20, 2018

With what ambitions?

Back summer 2002 was pivotal for me, because quite a bit had finally happened. Like had mysteriously to myself even, found myself suddenly curious about counting prime numbers and within a few weeks had my own prime counting function. But then also thought had finally figured out a way with my complex identities would call tautological spaces to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

Luckily for me my way to count primes was bigger than I realized then, and also soon would discover there was something VASTLY bigger than Fermat's Last Theorem which would take me well over a decade to fully understand.

To me some of the most fascinating mathematics can ponder endlessly where key to understanding is so simple really. So much is easily proven with a relatively simple factorization using only elementary methods.

In the complex plane:

P(x) = (g1(x) + 1)(g2(x) + 2)

where P(x) is a primitive quadratic with integer coefficients, g1(0) = g2(0) = 0, but g1(x) does not equal 0 for all x. Then would use: g1(x) = f1(x)/k and g2(x) = f2(x) + k-2 and get to symmetry:

k*P(x) =  (f1(x) + k)(f2(x) + k)

But would be YEARS before had that simple route. And am SO GLAD as to me the emotional impact is the hard part, and now have had over a decade to process many things. So yeah, the math turned out to be easy.

But got a publication early, after a bit of work!

So yeah did the pitching to journals for a bit, including trying to get an editor who was at my alma mater Vanderbilt University to publish. But he would not, even after I visited to explain in person. Yeah was disappointed there. But did give me a reason to visit my old school for a bit.

Persevered until found a journal which would consider and send out for formal peer review. And of course by early 2004 was trying to get a handle on actually getting published, and THEN so much very strange occurred as the chief editor went wild and tried to delete out my paper.

But yeah, where was their ambition? Have talked one of the BIGGEST errors in the history of intellectual thought. Why weren't math people lined up to be a part of history in the making? And it gets more interesting with the story of a math graduate student have talked with:

My reference social problem example

And yeah still going back to 2004, and over 14 years later now can get perspective on what those people probably realized back then--would be a hard fight.

What is fascinating about it to me, is that in my opinion, you get a very pragmatic and objective assessment of the mathematical community that proof would NOT be enough. And even that publication in a formally peer reviewed mathematical journal would not be enough.

Of course that is naive. Mathematical proof has the characteristic that it will not change. And NOW can get some perspective of how can simply grind against social resistance, with relentless patience.

Yet will admit has fascinated me that getting a place in the history books even if took so long might be after you were gone was never enough in case after case. Where have noted my shrug, and admit made things easier for me! I would not have to share credit.

But it is SO weird. For years would rush to get to results and wonder if my habit of sharing relentlessly might lead to me being upstaged! Those fears turned out to be unwarranted. I would be allowed to leisurely make some of the biggest discoveries in the history of mathematics, without competition.

And as I piled on results learned to be less worried myself about where things would go with mathematics. You just have to believe in it, until could also move onto other things.

Am NOT a mathematician. These days find am involved in a lot more than mathematics, where plenty of other things are extremely challenging as well. Guess need to keep myself occupied? Is more fun that way.

Relaxed quite a bit more with my find of my own modular inverse method. Which is what allows me to raise that question again, of how could intelligent people within the mathematical community get things so wrong about how things would go?

Was as if, time after time, people who could check, better than me for some time actually that I was correct, behaved as if the truth would never matter. Which to me? Said they had no faith in mathematical proof against social things. They must have firmly believed that social would rule out over mathematical truth.

But how could they learn such a thing? To me seems so bizarre.

Could go on and on about what is a deeper mystery harder for me to resolve as involves other people. Have theories. But yeah for quite some time was confident certain things MUST happen once proof was released to the world. What apparently did happen was people used the results. Which is cool. But so much else didn't which is a mystery to me readily emphasize.

However, people who are REALLY into something will get excited over their favorite subject. Like imagine Major League Baseball and a relentless homerun hitter. Fans could not contain their excitement. Other ballplayers could not ignore the competition. And sports is a ready reference to me.

Clearly have faced people just not that into mathematics in reality, regardless of any professional label or personal claim.

So in short? I realized, were not really mathematicians. Well that was helpful to me as became my opinion. Simplified things for me. After all, true mathematicians would be excited about mathematical truths regardless of social consequence. And would quickly have been serious competitors with advantage of being in their own area. For me had training in physics, but even then only undergraduate.

Is a mystery to me, will admit. Without questioning folks, wonder how could get an answer.

Yet here we are in 2018, so am looking at facts over 14 years later. So yeah, even on ambition alone is remarkable how clearly there was a consensus that mathematical proof was not enough to guarantee a place in history.

So fate would dictate would be my place, alone.


James Harris

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Talking some celeb-reality

Realized years ago needed to not myself be a source of misinformation about my own story. Which is why try to be careful and objective, with a focus on facts. But had to correct how I talked anyway as realized believed things not true from growing up in the 20th century.

Most of what I thought I knew about celebrity was either a complete fiction, or was just wrong.

Now I say celebrity is JUST the conversation in some excited way around a person, thing or topic. Which necessarily dies down rather rapidly, but can be re-energized with something new.

In contrast, my ideas draw attention from usefulness. But you know it's like Euclid is one of the most known names in the world, but how much celebrity? Very little. But there is some. Reality though is most talk of Euclid is about people forced to take geometry in school.

Consider Euler in contrast, where there is not that kind of thing. And most celebrity around Euler is with math people, especially mathematicians.

Web authority has emerged as very important in our times and have talked some. What will add here as maybe useful is that this blog is one of my most linked, but my greatest objective reach is with my open source project which is one of my least. The search domination of Class Viewer has been there for over a decade and according to Google Webmaster Tools is one of my least linked things.

Will not give numbers but Class Viewer is an order of magnitude smaller in reported links than this blog. Have puzzled over that for years. Feel like am getting a better sense of why.

To me the total number reported of links is irrelevant as is link quality that matters. That is, it matters WHO links to you more than total number of links. And have watched things grow in reach as links drop, possibly as weaker links are eliminated.

My own analysis of impact of negative statements is they merely drive reach, since the truth is more important. And at my current level has dropped to almost zero impact. Which was kind of a relief. In the past I over-rated the impact of any saying negatives, but turns out people do check.

Almost never notice anything negative about me or my research any more. Am sure could go find, but why bother. As have noted, people who draw attention on a global level get negatives as well.

And guess that is more of what will talk. Have admitted my global attention level has been challenging for me. That is both from the idea of it, in terms of the numbers and with having to deal with other things related where I do not discuss in detail but are actually positive

So yeah, you get globally known then that gives some obvious things, where money is not directly connected. To make money you generally need an agent who takes a percentage which I despise as a system. And would just as soon innovate to something better.

For years funded my own research simply working at what I'd call a day job, which to me was best. But unfortunately have found my global level does actually mean businesses take on a risk with me working a regular job.

Is unfortunate to me.

Have become more chatty about certain things. For me so much is in the challenge and the result. Like say I rework the entertainment industry and eliminate the current agent system? Wouldn't that be something?

Yup. Am confident THAT is what is in process now. But is a web reality. Web is figuring it out.

Once established then I can just make money with the new system the web is still building. Which will be really exceptional, when arrives.

As their money collapses, am confident certain people will either adjust and recognize, or will simply disappear as with money people? Money really is the only leverage they have.

To me is unfortunate needs to be this way. Spent a lot more time than was necessary looking for a different solution. To me so much was about me being more reasonable than others realized.

My own guess is that soon enough, we will have global changes that will eliminate how agents have operated in plenty of places from the entertainment industry to the press as well, and others where that unfortunate system of a percentage of the work of someone else has held sway. We will all be much better off, am sure.

Celebrity as it existed in the 20th century is quite simply--going away.

The web is bringing in more new and better, where web authority will rule much.


James Harris

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Some things settled in my mind

As much as have talked being unsettled by many things including my mathematical discovery, it occurs to me could be helpful to others to talk some things that are SETTLED in my mind.

One thing that is officially settled in actuality though have noticed people think there is room for debate is my one publication in a mathematical journal, where yeah, always feel a need to also inform things got wacky after. So yeah AFTER publication of my paper the chief editor went against protocol and tried to just delete out of the electronic journal, which left a gap where he lied claiming my paper was withdrawn. I say now was a lie as implies was something official when was not.

The journal managed one other edition before it shutdown. Its hosting university scrubbed all mention of it (last time I checked), but my paper lives on, along with all the other papers published in the over ten years the journal was active. Saved though by Europeans.

And was surprised to notice a post thanking certain people trended higher here. Link to it so is clear and for future reference as currently is #1 on the blog. Which to me? Came out of the blue.

However yeah reality is, you cannot have major mathematical discoveries without people noticing, I guess. And they drive a LOT of things which others can notice. Like that is how this blog by its name is high in search results. And is a large part of my global presence which I have noted is on par with a university. That is a pure merit reality enabled by the web, and I have NO control over such things.

Oh yeah so thank you to people all over the world who I admit are still mostly a mystery to me. But you are also heroes in my story. Thanks to you could get other evidence besides just my ability to prove that my ideas were important. One does ponder what is most important, and yeah, mathematical proof is, but how do you know for sure? One's mind can play tricks on you.

But being global is such a massive thing has taken me years to process and am still working on. Which is something only others out there around planet Earth could give. Is never something I could take.

Can just present my ideas like my math but cannot make people do all the other on such a scale.

What is settled then is a formally peer reviewed and published result, which was to demonstrate a tragic flaw in established number theory that lets someone produce a fake paper that appears to be correct with full rigor. Where paper was dated in 2003, while the journal had dragged a bit in publishing in early 2004, then all that wacky happened.

Is a shock. Was not surprised when there were mathematicians who clearly simply ran away from the result. And some may wonder: with what impact?

Reality actually is, biggest impact in my opinion was in me not having to share credit for things. (So selfish, eh? Yup. But figure should be honest there.) Otherwise there probably was a lot of political impact, and probably biggest impacts were social and on the entertainment industry. US economy probably lost a few billion dollars or so, and mathematical discipline will shrug as have explained.

As a major mathematical discoverer, will admit, to me? I like that not sharing credit thing for the most part. And also was so HUGE to me to get my own result like my way to calculate a modular inverse. That puts me in very rare air. Can legitimately be in a club shared with Euler and Euclid on that result alone. Which JUST GOT last year. For all I know? If ANYTHING prior had been different either I might not have gotten and humanity might not have known, or someone else would have that honor. So am like, is all good. Am ok with how things have gone because have gained so much.

To the mathematical field will all be a blip in history soon enough. Mathematics is just so HUGE really. Have a greater sense of the immense scale now than had before.

So yeah for me is all cool really. Some may notice places on the web where there are disparaging things said about me or my results and is, a shrug. For any global person can probably find that to be the case. Is just how humanity behaves, or some humans behave badly should say.

For folks who can check the math, and who understand web authority which is a relatively new concept, then there are obvious things. Like no one gets status at my levels for nothing, or for wrong things either. Just look around, and try to find someone if you think otherwise. I can shrug at major celebrities. And think to myself, wow, so that's one way to get attention, for a little bit. So cute. (Yuck. I actually DO think that too.)

Who failed most massively in this saga though? Some might think I'd say academics. But I say governments. Which is so much political. So to me, there is much settled. Where the math is the easy part.


James Harris

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Scale of mathematics impresses me

There are many comforts for someone like me, especially as appreciate just how important mathematics is to the human species. It does help someone in my peculiar situation, relax. As intense as some things have felt, in the big scheme of things are barely a blip in mathematical history.

Eventually the corrections to mathematical disciplines where needed will be in place. Mathematicians will confidently move forward with greater discovery, and so much now that seems so big, will simply...be dismissed.

People who were thought to be something they were not will for the most part be written out of human history, and so much will be a few sentences in the record.

It does bother me just a bit will admit. You think about massive amounts of human effort over a period that seems long to us, but is less than two hundred years. So much will be reset.

Web is already starting in other areas too. History books of the future will look so different in so many areas, as the truth becomes more dominant.

Web enables so much. Makes it so much harder to hide certain things.

To have my place in that picture of the grand scale of mathematics and human discovery in general is daunting. Years ago began working with that in mind, not concerned so much any more about the moment, but looking more often to the future.

Mathematics just does not care. It really is that simple. Still I felt so guilty with the truth. Still find it hard to comprehend at times. And is not my fault. Mathematical truth is just what is correct.

Mathematics is bigger than us all. Greater than us all.

And some of us get a little bit to write in that story. Is ok. It has to be.

I tell myself that it must be ok, and then I feel better. I DO care. But what good is that really?

Does my giving more time, work better? (And did I really? What did I control?) Or was it simply my worst conceit?

History will judge best am sure. Let future humans figure it out. I did what I felt was best.

So maybe I gave time, and in so doing changed the course of human history. But with what result? Time will tell.

Reality though was handling as much as I could as fast as I could. And still could use more time myself! Maybe in reality was more selfish than I want to admit.

And humanity is ok anyway. Of course our species is. Is greater than any one of us, as well. Or even all of us, currently alive.

Humanity is greater than us all.

Still we are needed. If for nothing else, for future humans to be born.

Maybe this post is to release the guilt then. And to admit, there was mercy shown. But was from a human, me. But then again part of me just doesn't think was mercy really. Was just me running away from the pain of others, as best I could. And round and round I go.

Is hard really, balancing things in my mind. I decided that the information is available. Those who were still misled had opportunity. The best mathematical minds, I expected to find the truth.

Web enables. Becomes a test then, I'd tell myself. The best will pass.

But yeah, so often just did not want to deal with the pain of others. Born into a world which would teach them an untruth, and now is a lie. And what chance did they have?

And what about me? Why do I get to be the person? And why so alone with so much? And I DO care, am sure.

The math does not care. The math is just, perfect.

Oh well, this post is moody much. But maybe it is time for me to address things I'd rather not. Did I play God with the human species?

Am confident I did not. But yeah, I made certain decisions and more than I prefer to admit, people live in a world that is a result of some of them. But THAT is about the power of mathematics, and was also a surprise to me.

How much would be my decision, alone.


James Harris