[math-fun] On sheep and goats
Extract from https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/06/29/a-prime-breakthrough/ --- << What GORZ prove is this: Theorem 1 For each {d} and almost all {n}, the polynomial J(n, d)(x) is hyperbolic. Of course, “almost all” means that there at most a finite number of polynomials that are not hyperbolic.
The quotation raises a number of questions, such as What inspired its author to decorate an initial straightforward, unambiguous quotation with the subsequent elementary howler in the first place? And how did this piffle manage to earn a link ("Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP" in the left-hand column) from https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/06/29/symmetric-functions-in-a-fractiona... in the second place? In contrast TT's own contribution is informative and provocative, even for a reader (like myself) who manages to grasp approximately 10% of its contents. I'm a sucker for investigations that manage to extend what are apparently inherently functions of natural numbers to the complex domain! Fred Lunnon
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Fred Lunnon