Basic overview of social problem

Being right is more fun. Correct is a better rule. So yeah, very much weird, even if easy to explain how in the late 1800's, ironically, some mathematicians screwed up when trying to firm foundations of modern mathematics as a discipline in the late 1800's.

Mathematicians instead weakened considerably.

Where I can prove that happened with a simple quadratic factorization, thankfully. Still is so hard to process.

Mathematicians back then failed to realize that they were not including necessary numbers when focused on ring of algebraic integers as roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients, like:

x² + 7x + 3 = 0

Monic just means 1 or -1.

As comforting as the simplicity may have been to them in focusing on such expressions,

Was too easy by much. Is even easier to show how they failed, where actually found something simpler, backing up a published proof, where love THAT story as chief editor tried to yank after publication and a little later journal keeled over and died. That's so wacky.

So there is no reasonable doubt and there is no doubt under established rules. These people try to flip their own rules though, when it pleases them, like no one would notice?

What is clear to me is that a political explanation for that wacky is easiest.

Have explained recently how modern number theory could have LOTS of bogus things, while working mathematics keeps working with post: When math is correct

And yeah, with number theorists sidelined from anything important to our world OUTSIDE of encryption, is not pressure from what I've seen for problem to be corrected. Clearly, world does not feel a need for them to be correct! Which creates a fascinating situation have pondered much.

Most people just do not care. Like to say the math does not care, but most of the planet doesn't either. They have no clue what number theorists are doing, and couldn't care less.

So yeah, they DID succeed at making themselves irrelevant, which makes for a much harder social problem to solve.

As we're talking about math error, number theorists can appear to prove just about anything they choose. So I look with a certain cynicism at what they put forward. Means they can also pick winners and losers, which am sure math students learn quickly. Is not what you know with this error that matters.

Human civilization is rather new. Human beings have a thin veneer of rationality and again, is simply ironic really that mathematics became so afflicted. Is very ironic, given that mathematics has the possibility of absolute proof.

Which I have used. And you can check how that has gone, so far.


James Harris