YEARS ago actually went through a period when said I didn't want to be credible with my mathematics as wanted to be sure the math was correct! Which actually makes sense though back then didn't go over well in what too often tended to be arguments on math news groups.
But like I went through a period of around 6 MONTHS where was certain had proven Fermat's Last Theorem when I simply had not. And had failed with a basic math error which a bunch of folks saw, but refused to tell me. By then had had more than one such failure, where they HAD gleefully informed me.
Eventually realized the error and was appropriately...let's just say was emotional. But later came up with more things.
So should that matter? With math? It should be just about the math. But we're human beings so I guess it can be hard for people to rely on the math even when by the rules they should.
Like later got published, with a paper demonstrating that starting with expressions valid in ring of algebraic integers and using only ring operations could still get to a result invalid in the ring of algebraic integers. So using all accepted rules could get to a seeming contradiction with the math.
The paper is dated December 2003 and actually got published late by the now defunct journal in 2004. And now 15 years later is clear mathematicians didn't want to deal with it. The chief editor deleted my paper out of the journal, claiming was withdrawn. Journal managed one more edition before shutting down, and being scrubbed COMPLETELY from its hosting university's web site.
While EMIS thankfully maintained a copy, which let's me link to my paper from a solid source.
And mathematicians moved to a fake result reality which is the situation to this day. I find it curious.
Yeah am glad I realized my credibility was irrelevant. What matters only--is the math.
Of course person who could find such a thing might be person who could do MUCH more as I have as kept piling on major mathematical results, which I did. Which actually intrigues me more.
However, my biggest result is that demonstration actually. Showing that the entire mathematical field could lead to contradiction at its base. Which is easy to check with elementary methods.
So yeah, for that reason is definitely one of the greatest intellectual demonstrations in ALL of human history. Which have pondered for years. And I keep wondering about it.
Anyone who can do basic algebra and knows a little number theory can verify it. Use of the ring of algebraic integers quite simply leads to contradiction. But does that mean math contradicts itself?
No. Of course not.
Yeah I fixed the problem also by discovering what I like to call the ring of objects which is given in the FIRST post on this blog. Which to me is telling.
How do people go on with error? They've given up on their future. Eventually humanity will go with the truth. Is just a matter of time.
So why would modern mathematicians for so long continue to waste time and energy on bad math research?
Talk to social psychologists or folks in that arena of science, but I say, is like with religions that keep going with claims debunked by science. In essence world kept going with what had been shown to be equivalent of a mathematical religion debunked by the math itself.
I DO find that curious as well.
James Harris
