Re: Why "Good Will Hunting" is fantasy

What if I don't know how to write a paper for a math journal?

Isn't that something that is taught to math students in school?

Why can't I just show what I have like the guy on the movie "Good Will Hunting"?

He didn't write a paper, now did he?


"feynman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Sounds a lot like the 'creation scientists' tirade against getting published
> because 'their research falls outside of accepted beliefs.'  I've worked in
> science long enough to know the competitive nature of research and
> publishing. If you have anything of importance, whether it's proof that the
> earth is 6000 years old or a new math proof, journal editors will fight to
> be the first one to publish. I know why creation scientists don't get
> published - not sure about your work. Write it up, submit it, and see what
> happens.
> 
> D Mitton
> 
> "James Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > The big deal in "Good Will Hunting" is that some smart kid while a
> > janitor manages to write out an answer to a difficult problem, and
> > then he gets acknowledgement, and other wonderful things.
> >
> > I'm there to tell you that what would have really happened is that the
> > math professor would have been excited, until he found out it wasn't
> > one of his students.  Then he would have been angry when he found out
> > it was a janitor, and would have erased the board.
> >
> > How do I know?
> >
> > Because I made my own discovery of a partial difference equation that
> > can be used to count PRIME NUMBERS, and it turns out that the big deal
> > has to do with that phrase "partial difference equation" as no one in
> > recorded history has managed such a feat:
> >
> > dS(x,y)= [p(x/y, y-1) - p(y-1, sqrt(y-1))][ p(y, sqrt(y)) - p(y-1,
> > sqrt(y-1))],
> >
> > S(x,1) = 0, and p(x, y) = floor(x) - S(x, y) - 1,
> >
> > while you get S(x,y) by summing dS from dS(x,2) to dS(x,y).
> >
> > Here p(x,sqrt(x)) gives the count of primes up to and including x.
> >
> > That I found a partial difference equation is of major importance
> > because it has a partial differential equation analog, and even a bit
> > of testing reveals that they match each other well, which may solve an
> > over one hundred year old mystery that intrigued the likes of Gauss
> > and Riemann.
> >
> > Remember?  Riemann was looking for a reason why.  He wanted to find
> > out the connection between the prime distribution and continuous
> > functions like li(x), so he did his analysis, but didn't find the
> > connection.
> >
> > So I may have succeeded where Riemann, Gauss and others failed.
> >
> > I say "may" because that's not proven yet, but the questions raised by
> > my discovery are IMMENSE, and if "Goodwill Hunting" were at all
> > accurate to the way mathematicians behave, they'd be all over it.
> >
> > I'd be cheered instead of derided.  Marveled at as a real, live
> > "Good Will Hunting", versus maligned as an annoying crank.
> >
> > You see, there is no "Good Will Hunting" because mathematicians won't
> > allow it, as they live in a world where non-mathematicians aren't
> > supposed to be capable of making major research finds, so if one does,
> > like I have, mathematicians simply *decide* that it can't be important
> > as a mathematician didn't find it.
> >
> > Oh, and after erasing the board, the mathematician would have probably
> > tried to get the janitor fired for interfering with his class.
> >
> >
> > James Harris
> >
> > "My math discoveries, found for profit"
> > http://mathforprofit.blogspot.com/