Yes, Gosper said this about Ramanujan in response to Dyson’s adulation, but I don’t think we should hold it against him. The other problem is that the truest giants these days seem to speak in a language that is only intelligible to themselves, that is, until a little earthling thinks they discovered something. Only then will the Giants tear their minds from the firmament to remind us of our place. As long as there is geomathematical discrepancy between what is known and where, I say, treat rediscovery as discovery and let the lesser-knowers develop equal access to knowledge. When relatively stupid people discover (or rediscover) a fact, they often have their own relatively stupid explanation, and this can help the knowledge economy! —Brad
On May 1, 2020, at 8:23 AM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
<< No one really solves a problem like this on their own ... >>
Quite so --- "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants". [ Though one does not infrequently discover that some wretched Giant has already seen further, and furthermore did so a good deal earlier! ]
WFL
On 5/1/20, Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote: No one really solves a problem like this on their own; though, Perelman, I think, is a hero—I just can’t imagine the amount of irrational persecution he must have gone through.
I’m not in the Million dollar prize fight, but if I manage to prove anything, I’m sure the worst part will be jealousy and nitpicking from the naysayers.
—Brad
On Apr 30, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds a tad sanctimonious, I know --- but I wonder how many people on this list would
(A) prefer solve a Clay prize problem by their own unassisted efforts;
and
(B) in consideration of the consequences for the average individual of sudden wealth, do a Grigori Perelman if they won.
WFL
On 5/1/20, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote: Math humor on Twitter: How to solve the Millennium math problems and win millions of dollars:
https://twitter.com/MathematicsUCL/status/1255875396257615875
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