When people fear simplicity

How do you deflect human beings all over planet Earth from proper appreciation of important mathematical discovery and why would anyone bother? SUCH huge questions where feel forced to ask and find answers.

After years of focusing on mathematical discovery, for which am very grateful, have begun studying more the lack of appropriate acceptance of remarkable discoveries, which I call the social problem. And in theory mathematics should not have such a problem, as people can prove things with rigor unlike in most areas of human intellectual pursuit.

However, have noticed that today's humans who are into mathematics are programmed to believe that often a supposedly brilliant mathematical argument is too difficult for them to understand. And they are trained to think that some mathematical things are only available to a small group of experts to fully grasp.

Have experienced some of that training myself, and noted when talking about paint in a prior post that there is legitimacy to specialization arguments, as there's too much for any one human to know enough in ever subject. And we DO trust experts to gain specialized knowledge well in excess of what most need to know.

But I have focused on simple approaches.

And what have I noticed more recently? Training to push people to suspect simple approaches in mathematics! They're being programmed to dismiss such!!! Presumably then, they are convinced that there must be something complicated and convoluted as to why a seemingly simple explanation must be wrong or unimportant? I guess so.

Is so harsh though as if you think your hard task is to find some great math? When is more interesting after, as you find out your fellow humans have been programmed to dismiss such, and as years go by, puzzle much. The math of course does not change.

So have shifted to functionality yet again, like with my new modular inverse method. But even then there is that fascinating pause where I wait to see what happens. Like have experience with my method for reducing binary quadratic Diophantine equations. And over more than a decade with past things, can then be that puzzle to tease out. Is a fascinating thing, this social problem with so much specialized programming of humans. Which is very effective.

And very clever I notice. So modern people in the math community who see themselves am sure as intelligent operators take it for granted that simplicity in a mathematical argument is suspicious, and accept that they should not understand very complex mathematical arguments supposedly important. And even when given absolute proof, can be expected to question even THAT as supposedly only expert mathematicians have authority with them.

So the establishment mathematicians can tell them anything without concern of being questioned.

So obvious when laid out, as why bother programming humans in such a way, if your math is correct?

Am all for faith in demonstrated expertise, but the questioning mind should also check routinely, as human beings are so adept at disappointing each other.

But of course I have much faith in demonstrated expertise, as I can demonstrate with numbers and math so effectively.

It actually takes understanding human beings at a deep level to be so effective at manipulating them against truth. Why bother if math is your focus? Such techniques are also used by governments am sure. Are also used by religions, which I know as grew up indoctrinated in a fundamentalist Christian one adept in such techniques, and escaped it. Is also why take a longview as these things are very difficult to crack. The people at their mercy? Enjoy it deeply. It feels right to them in a way few things in life do. Is like a drug. Why would mathematicians have such techniques as well? Such psychological manipulation sophistication takes quite a bit of effort to master.

Of course I have given the answer there too. How number theory went off the rails as I like to say, in the late 1800's with a subtle error one might call diabolical. And people had to be controlled by practitioners to maintain. So a system developed to train them over more than a hundred years.

People so thoroughly trained that they get hostile to valuable new mathematical knowledge. You present and they treat you like you crashed a party to which you were not invited when you thought discovery was the ticket to entry.

With math that is actually correct I cherish simplicity. Emphasize mathematical proof, and like demonstration with actual numbers. For me such things are the comfort, not faith in some humans.

Am a discoverer though. Makes a big difference I think. I trust the math.


James Harris