Re: Wikipedia and me

jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
David Moran wrote:
jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
David Moran wrote:
jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
Cardinal Chunder wrote:
jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
Some nincompoop had put me on the Wikipedia as a sci.math crank.
Well you are a sci.math crank. And several other groups that you post
your plaintive whining to.

It's not whining when a person gets a paper published in a peer
reviewed mathematical journal, some Usenet people manage to get it
yanked with some emails, and a few months later the freaking journal
dies, quietly shutting down.

I have a right to be ANGRY.

I played by the rules, and these people don't, yet they get away with
silly namecalling.

All mathematicians have to do is call someone "crank" or "crackpot" and
that's it.


James Harris

If anything, you should be mad at the journal. If they had known your
paper was flawed before it was published, they should never have
published it.

Dave
If it was flawed, cite an error.

Let's do a rational check:

What is more likely?

That an actual mathematical journal with over nine years of existence
would publish a wrong math paper?

Or that some sci.math people--Usenet is known for hostility and
volatility--might go after a correct paper and use well-known social
forces to cinvince some editors to make the wrong decision?

Remember, those editors didn't know me. No reason to put their
reputations and journal on the line to publish a paper, for what?

And sci.math people going on and on after what they've done, refusing
to admit blame is not a surprise, as why would you?

Who are you people anyway?

Any of you have ANY stature even within the mathematical community?

What have you got to lose?

You're nobodies.

But together, acting as a group, you had the power.

It was your communal effort that showed the power of Usenet to,
ironically enough, break the academic journal process and censor a
paper.

You people broke the system.

The academic world just hasn't realized it yet.

A mad mob of Usenet people broke the academic world's much vaunted
journal system.

Cracked it in two, without even trying hard.


James Harris

If you were to take 4 years of your life and learn enough math to get a
math degree, maybe you'd learn why people say you're wrong. Although,
you'd probably be the one telling the professors they're wrong. How do
you expect to be taken seriously if you refuse to learn?

Dave

And yet again, I remind that I have a PHYSICS DEGREE.

So? What does this have to do with anything? A PHYSICS DEGREE DOES NOT EQUAL A MATH DEGREE.


The emphasis is to remind people who just have a habit of thinking that
math people are very intelligent that the reality is far short.

You don't seem too bright yourself.

Mathematics is crucial to our high tech world, but most of the
mathematical ideas used today in practical areas were developed
hundreds of years ago.

People calling themselves mathematicians ride on the coat-tails of past
success, often make no sense, are irrational to an extreme, deny basic
information like this posters refusal to consider my physics degree
important, and they actively engage in socially aggressive and hostile
behavior like repeated insults and namecalling.

I never said your physics degree wasn't important. What does it have to do with math?

They're like the people born into a rich family trying to live up to
the family name--and always falling short.

You need to grow up, James.


James Harris


Dave
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