Caltrops - The Knuckle Shuffle





	[quote name="Zseni"][quote name="mark"]I've had my eye on this forum for awhile now and, as math is mainly mental masturbation, I think I've found a use for it. I have no idea of what people would actually post in this forum, but I thought I'd share these links: Doron Zeilberger's <a href="http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/">facinating site</a> is worth viewing, or, in the very least, his wild <a href="http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/OPINIONS.html">opinions page</a>. David Eppstein's <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/">Geometry Junkyard</a> has lots of hard problems that are nice to look at. mark[/quote] "The problem with the Clay problems is that they are prejudiced towards the so called `rigorous' mathematical proof-standards, implicitly excluding many other much more creative, and intrinsically just as legitimate, methods of reasoning used in the physical and social sciences, plus future non-Fregean logics. The Clay Institute is also very elitist, insisting that the articles be published in `refereed mathematical journals of world-wide repute'. Who is to decide how reputable a journal is? It would be nice if they provided a list, so that I would know where to submit my forthcoming proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. " Guys like this have a precisely opposite attitude towards math - opposite from the correct path, which is to say mine. Here is a mathematician who wants math to be only about math, and wants to extend the outside world's methodology into the math bubble. I think everything lies inside the math bubble, and we are best server by extending the methodology of math <i>out</i>. But this sentence in particular - is he the janitor of the AMS?[/quote]