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Ok, so I hedged yet again, as you can't generally solve out the latest surrogate factoring equations to get an integer solution, but there's a hypothesis I have which may mean it doesn't matter: With T the target integer to be factored I found the simple system: T = (x-n+vz)(vz-x) when k_2 z^2 + nx - x^2 = T and z = nv/(v^2 - k_2) where v does not equal sqrt(k_2) to prevent a problem with division by zero. If you played with it at all, you know it is perfect and does give a factorization of T, but if you concentrate on integer solutions for the variables you end up needing the factorization of T ahead of time, but what if you don't just try for integers? Like, just pick k_2 = 1, and iterate through integer values of v to get z, and then use that to get x, and see if it's rational. If my hypothesis is right then 25% of the time, you will get a rational x, and then you can get rational factors of T, and possibly factor it. Next step for me is to actually program it and see if that hypothesis is true. If it's not there are number theory research reasons for why the system is still fascinating, as if my hypothesis is wrong, why? An attempt at a complete analysis of the system gets you quintics, indicating a general solution is not available, so if the equations prefer non-rational solutions, it's of theoretical interest to ask, why. James Harris Ok, next post is a post of the solution to the factoring problem with a proof that it is a solution, and I remind tha you are NOT to touch your stocks or savings as it will only make it worse for you. I made my decision by considering the reality that major discoveries have a value to FUTURE civilizations and that if the discoverers before me had ever decided to allow one group to preserve its social needs rather than force the issue, then we would not have our science and technology of today. Still I worked diligently at finding reasonableness within the mathematical community. It has been over three years since I had my first major results, and even publication of a paper could not budge the bulk of the mathematical community, which then also sat back, when that paper was censored by social pressure, and even sat back when the math journal folded. It is my conclusion that this mathematical community will not accept the truth, but instead will try to compromise our future by preserving its current social order, and the rest of humanity be damned. It is my responsibility as a discoverer to make the decision that I feel is in the best interests of the entire human race, and my decision is for truth, and further scientific progress, versus the great likelihood of stagnation from flawed mathematical ideas and flawed behaviors that are spreading through the scientific world. The problems I'm facing are not mine alone as Dr. Halton Arp has problems with the astronomical community, and I feel certain that the spread of disease through the mathematical world is deep and pervasive requiring that I use the best, most powerful tool left to me. So after three years plus of considering all the issues, and debating my responsibilities as a discoverer, as well as all the moral issues I can think of, and every possible avenue to resolution, I have determined that solving the factoring problem is the only means left to me to bring about a resolution and the triumph of truth. The world around us is about to change, to be changed, by my decision. I hope that when they have all the facts, most people will understand, and agree with me that the future of our world is too important to be held in check so that some small society of mathematicians can preserve their social order and hold on to flawed mathematical ideas. I vote for the future. My decision is for the future. I wonder that one man had to make such a decision, but here we are, and I am making it. God help us all. James Harris This post outlines a solution to the factoring problem with working equations and a proof that it is a solution. Given a composite T to be factored, a factorization algorithm follows from the system of equations: T = (x-n+vz)(vz-x) when k_2 z^2 + nx - x^2 = T and z = nv/(v^2 - k_2) where v does not equal sqrt(k_2) to prevent division by zero. >From the second equation in the system you have x^2 - nx + T - k_2 z^2 = 0 and solving for x gives x = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 - 4(T - k_2 z^2)))/2 and now you pick some nonzero integers k_2 and z, for instance k_2 = z = 1 and then factor 4(T - k_2 z^2) to get integer n, where with g_1 and g_2 its integer factors, that is triival as n = g_1 + g_2 where g_1 g_2 = 4(T - k_2 z^2). Given integer n, you have integer x or 2x is an integer, and you next solve for v, using the third equation in the system, which gives v = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 + 4z^2 k_2))/2z which may be non-rational for a given g_1 and g_2, but provably will be rational for some g_1 and g_2. Given v, you now have the factorization as f_1 = x-n+vz and f_2 = vz-x. The proof that the system must factor is trivial. Note that for any integer factors f_1 and f_2, given any integer value for z, there must exist rationals x, v and n that will satisfy those equations for f_1 and f_2. But, any integer value of n, must be a solution of the square root in x = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 - 4(T - k_2 z^2)))/2 or x could not be an integer. Therefore, given that T is composite, and an integer n and x must exist, some value of g_1 and g_2 must give that n, and that x, which will give integer v, so a factoring solution must be determinable by this method. Note that f_1 + f_2 = 2vz + n and f_1 - f_2 = 2x - n so again, given just z, there must exist rationals x, v and n for f_1 and f_2, completing the proof. For example, if you pick z=1, with T = 15, and f_1 = 3, and f_2 = 5, you have 3 = x - n + v and 5 = v - x so 8 = 2v + n and 5 = 2x - n and rational solutions can readily be found. Notice there are an infinity of them, but your choice of factors g_1 and g_2 from g_1 g_2 = 4(T - k_2 z^2). narrows the set down to a finite one. The proof is done, but the social consequences haven't started yet. I do wonder why reason failed here. Notice that it has already been some time since I started explaining what I'd do, and began the implementation, but so far you still have no movement from the mathematical community. The evidence clearly shows that they are going to push this to the limit, and wait until society comes in and forces them to face the truth. I doubt it'll take long. My decision is, again, for the future. Discoverers who stop to let the truth lose for some small group of people are putting the future in jeopardy for the comfort of a few, against the welfare of all those yet to be born. The good of the many, outweighs the needs of the few. I do hope there are many more to be born, but some of you may disagree. However, it was my decision. Good night, and good luck. James Harris Oh well, the search continues. More below... jstevh@msn.com wrote: > This post outlines a solution to the factoring problem with working > equations and a proof that it is a solution. > > Given a composite T to be factored, a factorization algorithm follows > from the system of equations: > > T = (x-n+vz)(vz-x) > > when > > k_2 z^2 + nx - x^2 = T > > and > > z = nv/(v^2 - k_2) > > where v does not equal sqrt(k_2) to prevent division by zero. > >
>From the second equation in the system you have > > x^2 - nx + T - k_2 z^2 = 0 > > and solving for x gives > > x = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 - 4(T - k_2 z^2)))/2
> > and now you pick some nonzero integers k_2 and z, for instance > > k_2 = z = 1 > > and then factor > > 4(T - k_2 z^2) > > to get integer n, where with g_1 and g_2 its integer factors, that is > triival as > > n = g_1 + g_2
> > where > > g_1 g_2 = 4(T - k_2 z^2). > > Given integer n, you have integer x or 2x is an integer, and you next > solve for v, using the third equation in the system, which gives > > v = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 + 4z^2 k_2))/2z Setting z=1, is just fine, but k_2 has to be some composite or you can't get a rational v. And the bigger T is I'm sure the harder it is to find k_2 that will work. So the impasse continues. But I'm going to focus now on the factoring problem having decided that it is the only route to resolution. Discussing the other number theory research is a waste of time. I need force, as reason has failed. > > which may be non-rational for a given g_1 and g_2, but provably will be > rational for some g_1 and g_2. > > Given v, you now have the factorization as > > f_1 = x-n+vz > > and > > f_2 = vz-x. >
> The proof that the system must factor is trivial. Note that for any > integer factors f_1 and f_2, given any integer value for z, there must > exist rationals x, v and n that will satisfy those equations for f_1 > and f_2. > > But, any integer value of n, must be a solution of the square root in > > x = (n +/- sqrt(n^2 - 4(T - k_2 z^2)))/2 > > or x could not be an integer. > > Therefore, given that T is composite, and an integer n and x must > exist, some value of g_1 and g_2 must give that n, and that x, which
> will give integer v, so a factoring solution must be determinable by > this method. > > Note that > > f_1 + f_2 = 2vz + n > > and > > f_1 - f_2 = 2x - n > > so again, given just z, there must exist rationals x, v and n for f_1 > and f_2, completing the proof. > > For example, if you pick z=1, with T = 15, and f_1 = 3, and f_2 = 5, > you have > > 3 = x - n + v and 5 = v - x
> > so > > 8 = 2v + n and 5 = 2x - n > > and rational solutions can readily be found. Notice there are an > infinity of them, but your choice of factors g_1 and g_2 from > > g_1 g_2 = 4(T - k_2 z^2). > > narrows the set down to a finite one. > > The proof is done, but the social consequences haven't started yet. I > do wonder why reason failed here. > > Notice that it has already been some time since I started explaining > what I'd do, and began the implementation, but so far you still have no > movement from the mathematical community. > > The evidence clearly shows that they are going to push this to the > limit, and wait until society comes in and forces them to face the > truth. > > I doubt it'll take long. My decision is, again, for the future. > Discoverers who stop to let the truth lose for some small group of > people are putting the future in jeopardy for the comfort of a few, > against the welfare of all those yet to be born. > > The good of the many, outweighs the needs of the few. > > I do hope there are many more to be born, but some of you may disagree. > > However, it was my decision. > > Good night, and good luck. > > > James Harris Unfortunately, I think I've run out of options. My mistakes with working through the Decker example have taken away the reasoning option, as I now think I have some understanding of why the latest counterexample isn't quite a counterexample, but how do I come back from that? The errors have given me no choice but to use a final solution which does not require agreement. That solution is to release fully the information on solving the factoring problem, and post the algorithm that leads to ways to crack RSA encryption, thus ending the Internet as it currently operates, and impacting nations and businesses around the world. I, at this point, see no other choice, as mathematicians rather than trying to work through the issues to get a complete answer, are simply ignoring or fighting me, and I keep making mistakes that take away the reasoning option. The impact will be almost immediate, soon enough economies will be changed, and even nations will shift, as I make a decision for the future. Of course that sounds nutty now, with me just having admitted a major failure, but in just a few days, you will wish you could go back in time to now, to give me another option. That's it. I'm off now to implement the final solution. God help us all. James Harris José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I think I've run out of options. My mistakes with > > working through the Decker example have taken away the reasoning > > option, as I now think I have some understanding of why the latest > > counterexample isn't quite a counterexample, but how do I come back > > from that? > > > > The errors have given me no choice but to use a final solution which > > does not require agreement. > > > > That solution is to release fully the information on solving the > > factoring problem, and post the algorithm that leads to ways to crack > > RSA encryption, thus ending the Internet as it currently operates, and > > impacting nations and businesses around the world. > > The Hammer! At last! > I'm working on it now, and luckily it should only take a few days for the impact and this will all be over. But it seems to me to be such a waste as I was working so hard to prevent this outcome. Oh well, soon enough you'll see the impact and the joking will be over, as so much else is over, and the world is changed. Out of that change will come growth and progress, and the development of the science that is crucial for the future, but for a while, it will be a world that many of you will wish you could have prevented. Lots of things will be lost, and for many all hope will be gone, as I make the crucial decision that changes the fate of nations and of humanity itself. God help us all. James Harris Robart wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > José Carlos Santos wrote: > > >
>>jstevh@msn.com wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Unfortunately, I think I've run out of options. My mistakes with > >>>working through the Decker example have taken away the reasoning > >>>option, as I now think I have some understanding of why the latest > >>>counterexample isn't quite a counterexample, but how do I come back > >>>from that? > >>> > >>>The errors have given me no choice but to use a final solution which > >>>does not require agreement. > >>> > >>>That solution is to release fully the information on solving the > >>>factoring problem, and post the algorithm that leads to ways to crack > >>>RSA encryption, thus ending the Internet as it currently operates, and > >>>impacting nations and businesses around the world. > >> > >>The Hammer! At last! > >> > > > > > > I'm working on it now, and luckily it should only take a few days for > > the impact and this will all be over. > > > > But it seems to me to be such a waste as I was working so hard to > > prevent this outcome. > > > > Oh well, soon enough you'll see the impact and the joking will be over, > > as so much else is over, and the world is changed. > > > > Out of that change will come growth and progress, and the development > > of the science that is crucial for the future, but for a while, it will > > be a world that many of you will wish you could have prevented. > > > > Lots of things will be lost, and for many all hope will be gone, as I > > make the crucial decision that changes the fate of nations and of > > humanity itself. > > > > God help us all. > > > > Based on your past perfomances regarding anything to do with > mathematics, I'm certain we have nothing to worry about. You may think > you have some sort of insight, but you are very deluded. Prove me > wrong... big man! Factor them RSA composites! > > I recall your theoretical and implementation efforts on the integer > factorisation problem from the past. What a load of crap that stuff was. > You have no idea of what's been done in the field theoretically, and > your mickey-mouse programming (in Java no less... well regarded for its > speed -- barf) attempts were laughable. But please, do keep us informed. > It's up. I've posted the information on sci.crypt showing the simple solution to the factoring problem. Shouldn't take more than a few days for the impact to be felt worldwide. I just wish there had been another way. I've had the result for some months now, but held it, hoping that reason could work with mathematicians around the world. The information is now out there, so reason failed. James Harris Looking again, and chagrined at trying to figure out ways to avoid it, it looks to me like a poster named marcus did show a counterexample to my whole non-polynomial factorization argument. Oh well, so I guess I have blog clean-up to do. Uh, I guess that's it, as I'm going to try and quit posting for a while while I absorb this. I was so certain I was right, with such a simple basic argument. But I can't argue with an integer counterexample, at least, not any more. James Harris Looking again, and chagrined at trying to figure out ways to avoid it, it looks to me like a poster named marcus did show a counterexample to my whole non-polynomial factorization argument. Oh well, so I guess I have blog clean-up to do. Uh, I guess that's it, as I'm going to try and quit posting for a while while I absorb this. I was so certain I was right, with such a simple basic argument. But I can't argue with an integer counterexample, at least, not any more. James Harris Extreme mathematics involves a lot of excitment, silliness, errors and craziness during the brainstorming phase. That's when it's fun, and exciting. The second phase is when all the details are worked out, and it's rigorous and precise. We're at the second phase now with non-polynomial factorization and the proof of the error in usage of Galois Theory and the proof that the theory of ideals fails. What happened is that I was not quite sure myself about how certain things worked with my own research and had a deep-seated fear that maybe I missed something and the Decker quadratic puzzled me for a while. Having to face my fears I worked out the remaining details and now understand it all fully, so I can answer any objections, put up a complete proof that covers every detail, and note that now much of the excitement is over. That means I can now simply crush disagreement that is mathematical, and am unlikely to make the kind of big mistakes that can give the appearance of failure that I've made during the research phase, leaving posters with little to do but resort to insults and namecalling if they wish to resist. Just thought I should point that out. James Harris Gib Bogle wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > Extreme mathematics involves a lot of excitment, silliness, errors and > > craziness during the brainstorming phase. > > > > That's when it's fun, and exciting. > > > > The second phase is when all the details are worked out, and it's > > rigorous and precise. > > This is precisely where you always stop. You promise to start on phase > 2, we wait, nothing happens, then you go back to phase 1 again. Research at this level and with this situation is hard work, as I have people fighting me every step of the way versus trying to help work out exactly what's going on. And I don't have a roadmap. My research is bigger than I ever thought it could be with this freaky over one hundred year old error, and suddenly I am realizing that it's not a minor thing for me to let this impasse go on, as such a huge result could be crucial to the future development of science and technology, so suddenly I have this huge weight on my shoulders. You people are blocking, so I have to fight that, while I figure out the details of the mathematics which I am discovering, and it's hard to imagine the importance of things working out right. The difference could change civilization with the future determined by what happens here. The importance of my role is just damn scary at this point and I have to shoulder the burden alone. James Harris Questions about algebraic integer functions are the latest to come up with my research so I think it worth starting a thread to talk about them. Of course algebraic integers are roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. It can be proven that any algebraic integer must be the root of some monic polynomial with integer coefficients. The use of the phrase "algebraic integer" has lead to some using the word "integer" to mean both rational and non-rational values, where non-rational values are algebraic integers. I use the usage that the word "integer" by itself means the standard counting number and the negatives of them in case "counting number" doesn't include negatives as I'm not sure, and 0, just in case that's not included! An algebraic integer function f(x) quite simply has an algebraic integer value when x is an algebraic integer. That's the essential definition. I assert that provably an algebraic integer function f(x) can have a maximum degree. I am not sure if that is something that has already been workd out as a poster William Hughes challenged it, claiming that degree only applied to polynomials, so that's another reason for this post. Example: f(x) = x^2 + 2x + 1 has a degree of 2. g(x) = sqrt(x^2 + 2x - 3) has a degree of 1. In that second case you simply divide the maximum degree of the what's inside the square root by 1/2. f(x)g(x) has a degree of 3. Multiplying two functions together simply adds their degree. I assert that it can be proven that a continuous algebraic integer function that is differentiable at every point cannot be degree 0, and that a degree 0 algebraic integer function is a constant, except to unit factors, though not necessarily units in the ring of algebraic integers, as that ring has special issues. That is, values that are units in a complete ring are NOT units in the ring of algebraic integers, so you can have constants in that ring that can appear to behave like continuously varying functions, when in fact, their value is only changing by unit factors. Oh, the problem is that to be a non-rational unit in the ring of algebraic integers, a number must be the root of a monic polynomial with integer coefficients and a last coefficient of 1 or -1. That means that numbers that are units in a complete ring can't be units in the ring of algebraic integers just because they don't fit that restriction. An example of the contrast with the ring of integers is x^2 + 3x + 2 = (x+1)(x+2) where you can see that the unit 1 in that ring is allowed to be paired with the integer 2, which is a configuration impossible in the ring of algebraic integers for two non-rational algebraic integers. That is, it's impossible in the ring of algebraic integers for a pairing of a unit and a non-unit in that ring, when both are not rationals, and are roots of the same monic quadratic with integer coefficients, in contrast with the easy pairing of a unit with a non-unit in the ring of integers. That weirdness is just a taste of the oddities from the ring of algebraic integers. The odd features are actually kind of fascinating when you get used to them a bit, and study them. James Harris john_rams...@sagitta-ps.com wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > > [...] > >
> > That is, values that are units in a complete ring are NOT units in the > > ring of algebraic integers, so you can have constants in that ring that > > can appear to behave like continuously varying functions, when in fact, > > their value is only changing by unit factors. > > > > Oh, the problem is that to be a non-rational unit in the ring of > > algebraic integers, a number must be the root of a monic > > polynomial with integer coefficients and a last coefficient of 1 or -1. > > It must be the root of a monic _irreducible_ polynomial with integer > coefficients and constant term of +/- 1. > It being non-rational means that the polynomial is irreducible over Q. It's redundant to put that information in twice, while I wanted to emphasize that the coefficients have to be integers and bring out that point that the last coefficient has to be 1 or -1. But that's a minor point of disagreement as what you have is quite correct, though redundant given what I'd said. > > That means that numbers that are units in a complete ring can't be > > units in the ring of algebraic integers just because they don't fit > > that restriction. > > > > An example of the contrast with the ring of integers is > > > > x^2 + 3x + 2 = (x+1)(x+2) > > > > where you can see that the unit 1 in that ring is allowed to be paired > > with the integer 2, which is a configuration impossible in the ring of > > algebraic integers for two non-rational algebraic integers. > > Any algebraic integer unit can satisfy a polynomial equation with > any constant term you care to mention, by simply multiplying the > _irreducible_ polynomial it satisfies (which must be monic and > have constant term +/- 1) by any other polynomial. > Read carefully what I have and note that I used a quadratic. I did so deliberately, as no unit non-rational can be paired with a non-unit non-rational in the ring of algebraic integers to give a monic quadratic that has integer coefficients. > > That is, it's impossible in the ring of algebraic integers for a > > pairing of a unit and a non-unit in that ring, when both are not > > rationals, and are roots of the same monic quadratic with integer > > coefficients, in contrast with the easy pairing of a unit with a > > non-unit in the ring of integers. And I repeated in a slightly different way, trying to make certain that it was clear what I was saying. The crucial thing is to consider the comparison between what's trivial in the ring of integers: x^2 + 3x + 2 = (x+1)(x+2) And IMPOSSIBLE in the ring of algebraic integers with two non-rational algebraic integers where one is a unit, as then you can't get a quadratic with integer coefficients. That's just one of those odd quirky things that is a clue that there's something wrong with the ring of algebraic integers, and as my work has shown, it's incomplete. > > > > That weirdness is just a taste of the oddities from the ring of > > algebraic integers. > > > > The odd features are actually kind of fascinating when you get > > used to them a bit, and study them. > > Yup. James Harris Look at how close it is, with me figuring out a way to explain by using standardized functions--in that they go to 0 when x=0--so that you can SEE the 7 pop up, in only one factor, so that the mathematics clearly shows I'm right. But if I don't argue these points, and keep going past the mistakes, then people claiming that I am wrong, win, right? So then the future would be changed because the flawed mathematical ideas would stay in place for that much longer, and because they are flawed the science that depends on the correct mathematics would not be developed, and civilization in the future would be changed. Like, imagine if Newton or Gauss had faced dedicated resistance that had witheld acceptance of their ideas. Our present would not exist. To many of you I'm just some nut who won't shut-up, but to future civilizations I am crucial to their existence. My success here is necessary for their science and technology. Pay attention to the proof. All the big picture issues aren't necessary to understand the mathematics, but it's past time that some of you began to consider that there are very important reasons why you are not to stop major discoveries. James Harris .......... José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > Like, imagine if Newton or Gauss had faced dedicated resistance that > > had witheld acceptance of their ideas. > > > > Our present would not exist. > >
> > To many of you I'm just some nut who won't shut-up, but to future > > civilizations I am crucial to their existence. > > > > My success here is necessary for their science and technology. > > Read these sentences again. And now tell me: what would you call someone > else who would have written them? > Doesn't matter. It's the truth. It's difficult for people right at the point of a discovery to realize its impact over time. But here we have a case where I've overturned over a hundred years worth of flawed mathematical ideas. That sort of thing is not minor. > > Pay attention to the proof. > > Which proof? > For those who don't know, the point of these discussions for me is usually to work through drafts, where recently I've been looking for improved exposition to try and break through the impasse with my research. Thanks to the simplificity of the Decker example and the modified Decker example I now use because they use quadratics versus cubics I feel like most of you will get the proof now, and understand why the distributive property is key. I have two ways for you to see the proof: 1. Read my post "JSH: Simplifying exposition" 2. Go to my blog and read "A simpler example, some quadratics" You can just go to http://mymath.blogspot.com/ or directly to that post at http://mymath.blogspot.com/2006/02/simpler-example-some-quadratics.html which also is a fuller version anyway than my Usenet posting, as I use a proper modified Decker equation to show the contradiction with standard usage of Galois Theory and the theory of ideals. I really like using the standardized functions which go to 0 at x=0, as many of you are probably taught to do that sort of thing, so it's harder to dodge. Kind of wild--but then again sort of obvious--when that 7 just pops up as a factor of the constant term in a way that can only go one way by the distributive property, even with the introduction of functions. Remember math is important! Hiding the truth here just gets you a blackmark in history, and shows you don't give a damn about those people in the future who need the correct information found today. Past people accepted the truth, eventually, or we wouldn't have our science and technology today. Now is your test. James Harris .......... I make mistakes. I come up with requirements or examples that I think are great and then they don't work. But, if you believe in mathematics as an area where the truth can be determined then the mistakes of one person hardly matter as people WORKING TOGETHER can come to a conclusion which follows from the axioms of mathematics. I now have a post where I hope I covered all the bases as I'm not just here to disagree with people, or to push some idea just because it's my ideas, but to figure out what is mathematically correct. I kept pushing the distibutive property and in reply posters kept talking about functions. And I pushed the distributive property and they talked about functions and things degenerated badly when I asked a poster if he was stupid when I was talking about constants and he kept talking about functions! That bugged me. I shouldn't have asked if he was stupid. And I decided I should take on the issue of functions head on. Meanwhile as a research issue I've been puzzling over the Decker example and my modifications to it, curious about the mathematical behavior, as some gut feelings about it were wrong, and you can't make it behave. The issue for those who are curious is that any time the last two coefficients have the same prime factors and one of those prime factors is a prime factor of f, it's trivial that ALL the roots must have factors in common with that factor. With non-polynomial factorization that defaults you into a situation where, oddly enough, you are forced to have a ring with fractions!!! The mathematics doesn't allow anything else because of, well, because of the distributive property. So, as usual, I work on more than one thing at one time and I thank those posters who have gone to the effort of finding counterexamples to my research conditions with the modified Decker examples. Where do we go from here? Well, you may notice that besides losing it with the poster who I asked if he was stupid, I'm rather calm, because the math is easy, and explanations are easy, and why get excited? In contrast, posters replying seem to keep getting excited. I say, get excited about mathematics. It's all so exciting!!! And if you believe in mathematics at all, then you should be able to explain things like my normalized equations where the functions all go to 0 at x=0, which clearly show that the constant terms don't allow anything but 7 to have multiplied through, in the ring of algebraic integers, as then your dimensionless functions must lack structure. If that doesn't make sense to you, read my previous thread. If it still doesn't make sense to you, welcome to how easily simple ideas can get complicated. My guess is that the mathematics in this area rapidly becomes way to complicated for most people and far beyond the complexity levels of today's mathematics. I call it level 2 or 2nd generation mathematics, where I can hypothesize a 3rd generation mathematics, which has a complexity level that for most that is, well, unimaginable. The 3rd generation mathematicians haven't been born yet. Who knows what kind of minds they will have. James Harris .......... The goal of this thread is for me to cover all the points that have been brought up by myself AND others who have argued with me over what I've called the Decker example, which thankfully is a lot easier to play with as it involves quadratics versus cubics. If I am wrong, a concise and very objective review of all the mathematical arguments should reveal that I am wrong, but of course, I don't think I am wrong, or I'd just say it! The challenge for me now is to deliver on covering all the bases. Starting again with the Decker equations, in the ring of algebraic integers, where the goal is to remain in that ring, I have 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 so you can determine that at x=0, one of them goes to 0, while the other goes to -1, which shows that at x=0, the factor of 7 is not split between the two factors (5a_1(x) + 7) and (5a_2(x) + 7) but is a factor of just one, however, posters in arguing with me, have claimed that case is a special case and that in general the 7 factors, where its factors can be considered functions of x, so let's use w_1(x) and w_2(x) where w_1(x) w_2(x) = 7 and a_1(x) = w_1(x) b_1(x) and a_2(x) = w_2(x) b_2(x) and divide 7 from both sides of the factorization equation to get Q(x) = (5b_1(x) + w_2(x))(5b_2(x) + w_1(x)) but Q(x) is a polynomial as Q(x) = 25 x^2 + 30 x + 2 and factorizations of polynomials typically show factors of the constant term, while the factorization we now have just shows functions, so I want to standardize it (I wanted to say normalize it here but figure that's got other meanings that people prefer) by considering values at x=0. Q(0) = ((5b_1(0) + w_2(0))(5b_2(0) + w_1(0)) = 2 where I need to choose one of the b's to go to 0, as one of the a's goes to 0, and I'll arbitrarily pick b_1(0) = 0, which gives w_1(0) = 7, w_2(0) = 1 and b_2(0) = -1 so I can standardize with w_1(x) = w'_1(x) + 7 w_2(x) = w'_2(x) + 1 b_2(x) = b'_2(x) - 1 and making those substitutions gives Q(x) = (5b_1(x) + w'_2(x) + 1))(5b'_2(x) + w'_1(x) + 2) and in standardized form the constant terms of the factorization are factors of the constant term of the polynomial Q(x), which was accomplished by having all the functions go to 0, when x=0. Now multiply back through by 7, using our standardized values for w_1(x) and w_2(x), which gives 7 Q(x) = (5b_1(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_2(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_1(x) + 7)(5b'_2(x)(w'_2(x) +1) + w'_1(x)(w'_2(x) + 1) + 2 w'_2(x) + 2) where I have the factorization in standardized form, where at x=0, all the functions go to 0, and clearly you have that the first factor (5b_1(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_2(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_1(x) + 7) has a constant term that is 7, while clearly the second factor (5b'_2(x)(w'_2(x) +1) + w'_1(x)(w'_2(x) + 1) + 2 w'_2(x) + 2) has a constant term that is 2. (Remember though my choice of b_1(0) = 0 was arbitrary, as mathematically it's not determined WHICH of the b's must go to 0, just that one does.) So even with functions in, by the distributive proprty, it still remains that case that 7 is a factor of just one. Now to the question of the form of the w functions and their simple variant w' functions, as there is still a problem to consider which is that ANY function of x will have some maximum degree, like f(x) = x + 1 has a maximum degree of 1, while f(x) = x^2 + 2x + 1, has a maximum degree of 2, while f(x) = 2, has degree 0. However, it is fairly easy to prove that the w functions and the simple variant w' functions must have maximum degree 0, which just follows from solving for the a's using a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 as you get a = ((x-1) +/- sqrt((x-1)^2 - 28(x^2 + x)))/2 where you can see maximum degree 1, for BOTH possible solutions, which means that the multiplication of the w's has not raised or lowered the degree. That means that the w's are degree 0, or as I like to say, they are dimensionless. In the ring of algebraic integers, they are allowed to be dimensionless only if they are constants, which they are. If that puzzles you consider the dimensionless function f(x) = (x+1)/(x+2) which you'll note is in general outside the ring. However, as is well-known at this point, at x=1, you DO have a special case where it can be shown that for the w's to be constant, you cannot be in the ring of algebraic integers, plus the other cases where with a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 irreducible over Q, besides when x = 1 mod 7, you can show that neither of the a's has 7 as a factor IN THE RING OF ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS so you are forced out of the ring. My thinking in this area had been that you could still work with the Decker example and force it into a ring without fractions by simply avoiding areas like x = 1 mod 7, but I tested that hypothesis with a generalization of the Decker example, and then a modified generalization of that which some posters nicely checked for me, and the equations never behaved. Simple answer is that they can't be forced to remain in the ring of algebraic integer nor in what I call the ring of objects, but that's secondary and for me is a research issue. For the rest of you, if you wish to claim I'm wrong, I'm just looking for a way that the constant terms of the standardized 7 Q(x) = (5b_1(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_2(x)(w'_1(x) + 7) + w'_1(x) + 7)(5b'_2(x)(w'_2(x) +1) + w'_1(x)(w'_2(x) + 1) + 2 w'_2(x) + 2) can be 7 and 2, by the distributive property, and 7 not have multiplied through ONLY ONE of the factors. Notice here that the appeal to functions failed quickly when I standardized them, as functions may be complicated in many ways, potentially, but the issue here is not complexity, but mathematical behavior. James Harris ......... For YEARS now I've claimed I've found this massive error in the mathematical field, which mathematicians are running from with huge negative consequences for them when the world finds out, as they are fighting the progress of the human race, and arguments have gone after arguments where it doesn't seem to get resolved. Now there is a claim of counterexample to my claim of proof using the distributive property with what I've called the generalized Decker example. The claim looks rather solid. I say rather than debate that issue at this point--and yes you can consider my not just giving up now to be crank or crackpot behavior--I have put forth a simple challenge, which should not be difficult, if I am actually wrong. I modified the generalized Decker example in a special way: f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + 3x)(5) + f) = f(25 x^2 + 40 x + 2) and f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (3x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 where I've removed the ability to zero out the middle coefficient with an integer. That's it. I know why that's significant. You may think I'm grasping. A counterexample here proves me wrong with no more wiggle room. But, of course, since I know I'm right, my real point is to emphasize to you how much evidence there is, and later I can explain how the previous example allowed the appearance of a counterexample, just from you being able to zero out the middle coefficient with an integer. Mathematics is fascinating, and luckily for me, rigid in its logic. Once you know the rules, you know what can or cannot happen. Quite simply, no counterexample can be found with the modified equations. James Harris ........... William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > For YEARS now I've claimed I've found this massive error in the > > mathematical field, which mathematicians are running from with huge > > negative consequences for them when the world finds out, as they are > > fighting the progress of the human race, and arguments have gone after > > arguments where it doesn't seem to get resolved. > > > > Now there is a claim of counterexample to my claim of proof using the > > distributive property with what I've called the generalized Decker > > example. > > > > The claim looks rather solid. I say rather than debate that issue at > > this point--and yes you can consider my not just giving up now to be > > crank or crackpot behavior--I have put forth a simple challenge, which > > should not be difficult, if I am actually wrong. > > > > I modified the generalized Decker example in a special way: > > > > f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + 3x)(5) + f) > > = f(25 x^2 + 40 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f)
> > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (3x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > where I've removed the ability to zero out the middle coefficient with > > an integer. > > > > That's it. I know why that's significant. You may think I'm grasping. > > > > A counterexample here proves me wrong with no more wiggle room. > > Let x=2, f=-6 > > a^2 - 5a - 36 = (a-9)(a+4) >
> -William Hughes Good example! Same problem as before in that 3x-1 has to be coprime to f. But I know! I didn't SAY 3x-1 needs to be coprime to f. I know, sounds like I'm just squirming, but hey, I make mistakes. Real question is, what does the mathematics actually say, right? So I have a modified proof exposition. For the moment though, to be fair, let's say it looks like you're right and I'm wrong, but I have this puzzling LITTLE argument that I'm going to put out there, where it would be nice to see what wrong with it! I'm posting it in its own thread, of course. James Harris ......... Rick Decker wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > For YEARS now I've claimed I've found this massive error in the > > mathematical field, which mathematicians are running from with huge > > negative consequences for them when the world finds out, as they are > > fighting the progress of the human race, and arguments have gone after > > arguments where it doesn't seem to get resolved. > > > > Now there is a claim of counterexample to my claim of proof using the > > distributive property with what I've called the generalized Decker > > example. > > > > The claim looks rather solid. I say rather than debate that issue at > > this point--and yes you can consider my not just giving up now to be > > crank or crackpot behavior--I have put forth a simple challenge, which > > should not be difficult, if I am actually wrong. > > > > I modified the generalized Decker example in a special way: > > > > f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + 3x)(5) + f) > > = f(25 x^2 + 40 x + 2) > > > That should be f(25 x^2 + 40 x + (f - 5)) > > > and > > > > f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (3x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > where I've removed the ability to zero out the middle coefficient with > > an integer.
> > > > That's it. I know why that's significant. You may think I'm grasping. > > > > A counterexample here proves me wrong with no more wiggle room. > > f = -77, x = 6, in case you missed the other thread. > > No, I didn't miss it. I appreciate your energy though in trying to make sure! Turns out I was wrong with my modification as I can't force 3x - 1 coprime to f in general, and no modification ax + b with a and b integers can prevent f from sharing factors at times which forces you out of rings that don't have fractions. It turns out that is a characteristic of any quadratic example, so my use of cubics ended up relying on the lowest degree where the results will hold in a ring without any fractions, or, to be more precise, my ring of objects. Good work keeping up on the counterexamples thing. I appreciate it. James Harris ........... jstevh@msn.com wrote: > Rick Decker wrote: > > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > > > For YEARS now I've claimed I've found this massive error in the > > > mathematical field, which mathematicians are running from with huge > > > negative consequences for them when the world finds out, as they are > > > fighting the progress of the human race, and arguments have gone after > > > arguments where it doesn't seem to get resolved. > > > > > > Now there is a claim of counterexample to my claim of proof using the > > > distributive property with what I've called the generalized Decker > > > example. > > > > > > The claim looks rather solid. I say rather than debate that issue at > > > this point--and yes you can consider my not just giving up now to be > > > crank or crackpot behavior--I have put forth a simple challenge, which > > > should not be difficult, if I am actually wrong. > > > > > > I modified the generalized Decker example in a special way: > > > > > > f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + 3x)(5) + f) > > > = f(25 x^2 + 40 x + 2) > > > > > That should be f(25 x^2 + 40 x + (f - 5)) > > > > > and > > > > > > f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) > > > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > >
> > a^2 - (3x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > where I've removed the ability to zero out the middle coefficient with > > > an integer. > > > > >
> That's it. I know why that's significant. You may think I'm grasping. > > > > > > A counterexample here proves me wrong with no more wiggle room. > > > > f = -77, x = 6, in case you missed the other thread. > > > > > > No, I didn't miss it. I appreciate your energy though in trying to > make sure! >
> Turns out I was wrong with my modification as I can't force > > 3x - 1 coprime to f > > in general, and no modification > > ax + b > > with a and b integers can prevent f from sharing factors at times which > forces you out of rings that don't have fractions. > Damn. That was dumb. I looked back at my cubics. There is a way: Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + fx)(5) + f) = f(25 x^2 + (f+25)x + 2) and f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (fx - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 and fx-1 is forced to be coprime to f for all algebraic integer values. Kind of uglier though...hmmm. Oh well. James Harris You have heard of the power of the pen, and now I'm going to make it explicit for you what I am doing. Each day, each post where I remind that you are fighting history, fighting against progress, and showing you are just another group like so many others in human history who put their needs above the needs of everyone else, is a weight of words meant to make sure that people understand the real issues here. Because when you lose you will whine. You will get upset with others when it's your faults. And you will beg other people to not allow you to suffer for your own mistakes. Each day I make these posts to remind people that you had every opportunity to do the right thing.Each day I make these posts so that they understand that you willfully put your needs and that of your own above those of everyone else--that you put yourself above the world. These posts are meant to make sure that people know that you were informed. That you were reminded that the issues here are bigger than you are. That you knew that our world depends on the truth, accurate knowledge and people not succeeding when they fight against the truth for their own selfish needs, and that later when they lose, they suffer the consequences--no matter how much they cry, or complain, or say it's just not fair. James Harris .................................................................................................... I have a peer reviewed and published result which has gone by top mathematicians with names many of you should recognize. No mathematicians of any note has claimed an error in that argument, and I've explained it to a few. BUT there are posters on Usenet who continually claim error and I keep simplifying and explaining, where they keep talking about variables when I talk about constants and the distributive property. It's social crap and it's not remotely hard to see that it is and then it's not hard to figure out why it's going on. I found a mistake, an error made over a hundred years ago, by some clever techniques where I factor polynomials into non-polynomial factors, and rather than admit the error, top mathematicians just get quiet, while newsgroup people throw bogus arguments at it. There is only one way you people are sitting calm in this situation which is by holding on to the belief that no matter how much I explain, and no matter how carefully I go over this, no one will listen as long as you all go along with the lie that Galois Theory works as advertised and the theory of ideals works as advertised. Maybe some of you feel it's bringing you all closer together. But what you have is a cynicism against the human race as these things have happened before. There's some discoverer with a result that some group doesn't like because it upsets the status quo, so they fight it, but then history shows that result to be critical to the continued progress of humanity. Right now you people don't give a damn about humanity. You can't think that far. All you can feel is the hurt and fear that your precious ideas have been proven wrong, and then you feel comfort and solidarity when you think you can all stand together and block the truth from the world. ......................................................................................................................... Stuff happens. So Dedekind missed something and you can't just define out convergent infinite series so there's no basis for ideal theory. So what? It's big, yeah, but there are upheavals in major fields, and so now there's one in mathematics. That's not sad. That's an opportunity. What's sad is the betrayal of the discipline by so many of you in a crucial test with an argument so simple that there is just no way to be someone who loves mathematics and run away from it. So what do you love? I think some of you love complexity. The math ideas you know are complicated and hard to understand which is the basis of their value to you. I think some of you just love the idea of being into mathematics or admiring mathematicians without regard to the reality of the hardness of the discipline or its unforgiving nature. There are few names for the great mathematicians in history. Now you know why. Most people cannot handle an area where the truth is independent of their needs, or their society's needs. For many of you, your society needs this result to not hold and that's all that matters to you, so I get to argue with people over settled results, settled mathematics that has even been peer reviewed and published. And history shows you will lose, and you have to lose, as people like you have stood against so many ideas that today are the foundations of our technological and scientific world. People like you have fought against the theories and ideas that have given us so much, and as mathematics is an important field, it is likely that the correct mathematics, will give so much more. So you stand against history, against humanity, against the good of the many, and it's so sad. Here you have an opportunity to see mathematics for what it truly is, and fall in love with mathematics for the right reasons. Because mathematics gives you the power when you are right that one person can stand against the entire world when it disagrees against experts and groups, against insults and namecalling, against social pressure meant to deny the truth, because mathematical proof is independent of all of that nonsense. History shows that you people if you keep fighting will not only lose, but will lose that much more greatly the longer you fight. But why be motivated out of fear of the punishment? Why tell the truth about the mathematics because of the consequences when the world learns you are its enemies? Why not tell the truth because it's the truth? Don't make a sad story sadder. I challenge some of you to look forward to a brighter future, and a world where the mathematical foundations built today, will be part of the science of tomorrow. James Harris ..................................................................... I've gone on in replies about how the argument I have relies at a key step on the distributive property. I think it worth reminding at this point that my argument that posters keep trying to find fault with, while crucially ignoring the key step, is formally peer reviewed and was published in a math journal. I want to re-interprete the conclusion that can be drawn by the folding of that math journal in just a bit, but as some of you know, the path to publication of a paper can be convoluted. My paper that was published started out as some posts when I noticed posters arguing with more heat over a particular piece of a short proof that I had for Fermat's Last Theorem than any other. So I pulled out that piece and began posting on it, and decided that I could focus on it alone, get it published, and with it settled, come back to the issue of the full FLT proof. That was over three years ago. An early draft of the paper went to Andrew Granville for publication in the New York Journal of Mathematics, an electronic journal. He replied to me that it was outside of his area, and I should check with the chief editor, so I did. The chief editor, whose name escapes me, replied that it was too short for their journal. I moved on. I just sent another early draft to Barry Mazur, out of the blue and not to him for publication in any journal, and he replied encouragingly and asked me some vague question that I now forget what it was, but I answered him, and never heard from him again. I kept at it, and concentrated on one journal because an editor was from my alma mater Vanderbilt University. He rejected my paper at that time, saying he didn't understand it. I forwarded him Barry Mazur's email and he said he still didn't understand the paper, but offered that if I were ever in Nashville, we could work it out on the chalkboard. So I made it my business to drive to Nashville, which was a bit over a four hour trip as I was then in the Atlanta area. I explained it all to him using his chalkboard in his office, and afterward, he went home. Thanked me for an enjoyable conversation, and that was it. I was furious and replied with some heat, which didn't go over well. >From there the paper went to the Southwest Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. They verified receipt and informed me the paper was going out for formal peer review. They used two reviewers. That journal had been around for about nine years. Months went by. I went back to posting out of boredom and even at one point mentioned that I'd sent the paper to that journal. As time went by, I worried that maybe they'd just bury it, so I contacted them, even at one point noting I was an amateur, but no, I didn't just come out and say that Usenet people hated me and hated the argument. A Huckabee was encouraging and said it was in the process. After nine months I was informed that I had a "nice paper" and it was published in the electronic journal. I remember Huckabee replying to an effusive email where I thanked them for publication, and he said that it didn't matter about the source for a math paper as long as it was correct, even if it was from a janitor, which I took to be an offhand mention to "Good Will Hunting". So the paper came out, I began celebrating, informing friends and family, and old school teachers, and then someone posted about it on the sci.math newsgroup. Posters began hate filled rants as the newsgroup filled with posts. They attacked the journal. They attacked the journal process. Claimed that math papers were often wrong, in small journals. Lambasted the editors. And some of them decided to mount an email campaign against the paper, which succeeded, and the chief editor yanked it. A few months later the journal quietly died. I want to re-interpret that death of the journal. Think about it. Let's say that the editors went back to look carefully over my paper, realized the basic argument WAS correct and realized that I'd overturned Galois Theory and the theory of ideals--why continue? James Harris .............................................................. Decker's example can be generalized to help in finding rational solutions, where you will find that the mathematics follows the distributive property: f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + f) = f(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 and you can let f be a rational number. Now there will be posters who will loudly declare coprimeness means nothing with rationals, but consider f(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (fx + f)(x + 2) and solutions with rationals, as guess what? You can STILL see that one factor is multiplied by f, even with rationals. If you don't think so, play with that example with some rational f's and rational x and see if the factor multiplied by f doesn't betray that it was. Now then, if I am wrong, some rational f can be found with a rational x that shows it. Like let f=32 with the generalized Decker example, and find some rational solutions and see if that f gets split up. Or let f=1024 or anything you want!!! You see, no counterexample exists, as the distributive property is right!!! So posters here at best can loudly proclaim that Galois Theory doesn't work with rationals but only with non-rationals, which is the dodge because it actually doesn't work, but you can't see that with non-rationals. The proof I've given relies on the distributive property. Even lower rung mathematicians cannot be incapable of quickly seeing it MUST be correct, but clearly as this impasse continues they are running. And them running means they are hoping that none of you who are not already established in careers, who are just learning as you're still in school, will stop protecting them by ignoring this result. They are in the weak positon of needing your protection so that they can teach you wrong mathematical ideas, as if some students start protesting, they will collapse like the cowards they are, running the other way, selling each other out to protect themselves. First mathematicians on the block will be the ones who are posters on sci.math, and their own will destroy their careers. People like Magidin and Ullrich will be out of their universities so fast your head will spin, as they are tossed to the wolves. So they sit and wait, checking each day to see if any of you are breaking out of the wall of silent acceptance, or irrational denial in the face of a simple proof that relies on the distributive property at the point of dispute. That check may be the best evidence against those mathematicians as they leave cyber clues to prove they knew, but were checking to see if they could keep getting away with lying. James Harris ................................................................. William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > Decker's example can be generalized to help in finding rational > > solutions, where you will find that the mathematics follows the distributive property: f Q(x) = f((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + f) = f(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > and > > > > f Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + f)(5a_2(x) + f) > > > > where the a's are > defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + f(x^2 + x) = 0 > > And your claim is > that one of the roots must always be divisible > by f and one coprime to > f. > > So take x=-2, f=-9 we get > > a^2 + 3a - 18 = (a+6)(a-3) > > The > two roots are -6 and 3, neither is divisible by -9. > > -William Hughes > That's no different from the special cases with the original Decker > example when x = 1 mod f, as then you have that sqrt(f) is a factor of > both. Well, at least you're trying. You need x-1 coprime to f. Go look, > you should still be able to find some rational examples, as remember, you > can use rational f, where the requirement becomes with f = b/a b/a - 1 = > (b-a)/a that b-a be coprime to f. James Harris > .................................................................... The points that are being argued over, are trivial, so why does the arguing continue? I'll give you one of my favorite examples explaining, yet again, how the distributive property is relevant: 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (7x + 7)(x + 2) and you know by inspection which factor was multiplied by 7. Now let me obscure things a bit with 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) where a_1(0) = 0, and a_2(0) = -5, and you can figure it out. The functions do not change the distributive property. Nor does the value of x change which factor was multiplied through by 7, and which was not. Notice too that if you pick x=5, you will find that you have factors in common with 7 in BOTH, but that doesn't change the basics. Those are the concepts. So what's different with something like 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and the factorization using function 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0? If you are honest and look at it mathematically the only real difference between that and my previous example is that the solution to the functions obscures, which one has 7 as the factor. Otherwise, there is no meaningful difference mathematically. I say, the distributive property STILL holds, and it's basic mathematics, very old and respected and it should be respected and conclusions that result from it, are valid. In contrast people argue with me that factors of 7 somehow move around depending on the value of x, so that the constants get multiplied by different values of 7, depending on the value of x, where usually they don't talk that point. Listen carefully, and you find these people talk functions, and stay away from the constants. But let's go back to the simple example: 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) with a_1(x) = 7x and a_2(x) = x - 5 you STILL HAVE FUNCTIONS, but just have easy linear functions. Being a function does not make something magical and does not give it magical powers to control constants that are independent from variables. The difference between the simple example and the more complex example is that with the simple example you can SEE the value of the functions for any x, and knowing the factors of x gives you the factors of the functions, while with the more complex example, you can't always see directly. And why can't you? Because if you have solutions for the a's from a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 with integer x, where the result is irreducible over Q, and not the trivial case where x = 1 mod 7, then you are blocked from directly looking at the factors by the ambiguity of the square root. It's like with 1 + sqrt(4), if you couldn't evaluate sqrt(4), how would you know that only one solution has 3 as a factor? With 1+sqrt(2) how do you know whether either solution has 3 as a factor? TELLINGLY my arguments work when you can SEE the solutions as in getting natural number results, which is why posters avoid that area. Remember, I came back on Usenet talking about cases where you could see the answer with my work. There is no evidence to the contrary. There is no mathematical proof against these ideas as there can't be a disproof of the distributive property. Claims that I am wrong go back to claims made by Dedekind over a hundred years ago of proof, or are circular arguments claiming that results in the ring of algebraic integers disprove my case. BUT despite anything they may say here in arguing with me, or in attacking the merits of the journal that published my paper, a paper over these arguments WAS PEER REVIEWED AND PUBLISHED and no one can refute me mathematically as I have mathematical proof. So instead they use social crap, and why? So that older men who have built their careers on flawed ideas can stay comfortable on your backs, depending on you accepting false mathematical ideas so that they can keep their "accomplishments", their positions, and social status, while you are screwed. How long can this impasse last? Probably until the mathematicians currently in power retire. Once the people with the most to lose from the truth, who spent most of their careers with the false mathematical ideas retire, then the rumblings and bubblings of revolutionary ideas can push through, and that's it, you are screwed. MUCH of what you are learning now in number theory will just be tossed and will people even bother to apologize to you? Will anyone consider your position now? How hard it is? Will they care about the hours that you worked and toiled to learn those ideas, all the homework, and assignments, and effort to get it down, and then one day, the announcement comes--it's false. The world moves on, and where are you? What then? What in the hell do you do then? What if they say, oh, your degree isn't valid as the bulk of your degree is over mathematical ideas shown to be false? And if you say, but how could I have known? The world reminds you that the man who discovered the truth talked about it VERY LOUDLY and PUBLICLY for years so you COULD HAVE KNOWN, but chose to ignore the information, or were screwed by your fellow mathematicians who COULD HAVE KNOWN but didn't talk about it. So your group goes down, and takes you with it. If civilization is to continue, the truth has to win in these situations. History shows that it will win. If you are hoping on the failure of humanity I am here to tell you your hope is futile, and I'll make that point later as well, as over 10,000 years of human civilization has depended on groups like yours LOSING the fight against the truth. The position of your society is ultimately against the future of everyone else. And history also shows that there are LOTS of people like you who get steamrolled, who never thought it was possible, never really saw it coming, and when it happens they look to all these people to feel sorry for them, and save them, and the world just keeps on turning. James Harris ..................................................................................... Rupert wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > The points that are being argued over, are trivial, so why does the > > arguing continue? > > > > I'll give you one of my favorite examples explaining, yet again, how > > the distributive property is relevant: > > > > 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (7x + 7)(x + 2)
> > > > and you know by inspection which factor was multiplied by 7. Now let > > me obscure things a bit with > > > > 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where a_1(0) = 0, and a_2(0) = -5, and you can figure it out. > > > > The functions do not change the distributive property. Nor does the > > value of x change which factor was multiplied through by 7, and which > > was not. Notice too that if you pick x=5, you will find that you have > > factors in common with 7 in BOTH, but that doesn't change the basics. > > > > Those are the concepts. > > > > So what's different with something like > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and the factorization using function > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > >
> a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0? > > > > If you are honest and look at it mathematically the only real > > difference between that and my previous example is that the solution to > > the functions obscures, which one has 7 as the factor. > > > > Why should either one have 7 as a factor? Take x=1, for example, then > a=+/- sqrt(-14). The distributive property. What's key in this thread is that there is NO MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE between 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) where a_1(0) = 0 and a_2(0) = -5 where the a's are really strange bizarre functions or simple linear functions like a_1(x) = 7x and a_2(x) = x-5. That's it. That's the point of the thread. Now some of you are saying that depending on what kind of functions you have, the distributive property holds or it doesn't hold. I say the distributive property holds. Given the simple example with linear functions, do you deny that the distributive property holds? I really doubt you will, as, of course, if you try, you can just see that a_1(x) = 7x, and you may naively believe that seeing is the proof. But being able to see that a_1(x) = 7x is NOT the proof that given a_1(0) = 0, and a_2(0) = -5, with 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) it must be the case that one of the a's has 7 as a factor. The only meaningful difference with more complicated examples, like the Decker equations is that the radical obscures the functions for certain non-rationals. That's it. That's also why with rational solutions you see that everything follows the distributive property. So simply tossing out the word "function" as if being functions means the distributive property goes away does nothing. If you ponder this post, and are serious about mathematics, then there will be no room for doubt, if you do so objectively. I think it a true test of those who argue with me, to either explain how one set of simple functions can obey the distributive property, while other more complex ones can simply thumb their noses at it, and mathematics be consistent. James Harris P.S. And you know that one of the a's has 7 as a factor because of the distributive property. .............................................................................. Yes, I did it again, went off with claims of easy proofs which turned out to be wrong, as I fought it out over an approach that just didn't work. Big deal. I don't doubt that as they've done in the past there will be posters who will go on and on about me screwing up and boldly claiming I had these dramatic proofs when I was just wrong. And admitting I am wrong! Wow, you should see the heat that flows over my just coming out and saying that I screwed up. I get made fun of for that as well, as if you people are perfect. Nope. You just don't try hard enough. Sure, if you want to never have to back-pedal and admit mistakes, you can work very hard to never make them, look very carefully over every single argument you come up with--and then just sit on them--as try as hard as you can, you will fail, and screw-up if you dare to put it out there. I do dare. I love it. And I make a lot of mistakes along the way. So yeah, the other side is to say though that I screw up a lot. And I do. Lots of claims of proofs where I've had to back-track as I was wrong. But that's extreme mathematics. You push the limit. Forget about social crap so you don't care so much about the little people who will get all hot and bothered about your mistakes. Also, when you're arguing with people, emotion can get the best of you and you stop thinking straight as you get defensive and look for any kind of explanation that you think defends your case. In any event, I had some claims of proof over the weekend that were just wrong. Went really wild Sunday with quite a lot of crap and a lot of crap arguments where I was arguing positions that just didn't work like I thought as I was happy as hell, telling myself how brilliant these little proofs were. And they weren't proofs. James Harris ............................................... Oh, over the weekend I had a lot of trouble handling an example from a Rick Decker of Hamilton College that paralleled my own non-polynomial factorization argument with simpler quadratics where one had a special feature. I made a lot of posts claiming proof where the arguments did not prove what I thought they did when I posted them, and I was wrong. So yes, those previous claims of proof made a few days ago, were crap. Here is the correct answer to the Decker example. As a synoposis up front as I've had at least one poster ask for something beforehand that explains what's going to happen, I am going to use the Decker equations with the same approach I've used with my own more complex cubic generating equations to show a complete proof, which just so happens to shoot down standard usage of Galois Theory, and the theory of ideals. The approach is basic, relies on simple algebraic concepts, where the key step depends on the use of the distributive property. In the ring of algebraic integers, I have from Decker that 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0. Given 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) it cannot be the case that the 7's visible in the factorization both result from the 7 multiplied on the left side, as the constant term of Q(x) is coprime to 7, since it is 2. So both constant terms--those terms constant with respect to x--cannot be visible in the factorization. However, the actual constant terms can be determined by clearing x out, letting x=0, I have that one of the a's goes to 0, while the remaining one is -1, from a^2 + a = 0. And looking at 7 Q(0) = (5a_1(0) + 7)(5a_2(0) + 7) I have that the actual constant terms are 7 and 5(-1) + 7 = 2, but it's not mathematically determined which of the two factors was multiplied by 7, and which one actually is coprime to 7, but you know ONE must have been multiplied by 7, from the distributive property and the constant terms. Note that the result that only one of the factors was multiplied by 7 follows from the distributive property, and noting the values of the constant terms. That completes the proof. It's rather short as you can see. It contradicts with standard ideas from Galois Theory because from that theory, if the a's are non-rational and irreducible over Q, except for the special case where both have sqrt(7) which I'll go over next, then by those ideas NEITHER of the a's can have 7 as a factor. And it can be shown that neither does have 7 as a factor in the ring of algebraic integers. But that then proves--as the simple proof cannot be wrong or it wouldn't be a proof--that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete, and for those who don't understand why it shows that, consider the analogy where considering evens as a ring, 2 and 6 are coprime in that ring because 3 is not even. Make sense? Similarly, 7 being coprime in the ring of algebraic integers, when it has been proven to be a factor by a simple algebraic proof, shows that it is excluded because its co-factor is not an algebraic integer. I would be interested in at least some posters actually trying to answer the proof itself, and its steps, especially the key step where I note that the constant factor, which is 7, proves that 7 was multiplied through that particular factor. Now to the sidepoint about special cases. It's not hard to explain mathematically. It's easy to determine that at x=1 mod 7, both of the a's have sqrt(7) as a factor. The explanation is simple enough, but it might help in understanding to divide 7 from the factorization and solve for the solution where 7 is a factor of only one, so Q(x) = (x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7 = 25 x^2 + 30 x + 2 and Q(x) = (5b_1(x) + 1)(5a_2(x) + 7) where a_1(x) = 7b_1(x), so I also have b_1(x) a_2(x) = x^2 + x and 5a_2(x) + 7(5)b_1(x) = (-1 + x)(5) so I can solve out a_2(x), to get a_2(x) = (x^2 + x)/b_1(x), and substitute in the second to get (x^2 + x)/b_1(x) + 7b_1(x) = -1 + x which gives 7 b_1(x)^2 - (x-1)b_1(x) + x^2 + x = 0 and the solution that b_1(x) = ((x-1) +/- sqrt((x-1)^2 - 28(x^2 + x)))/14 and at x=1, I have have b_1(1) = +/- sqrt(-14(5))/14 so it's just that at that point and it turns out at all points where x = 1 mod 7, that 7 b_1(x) has sqrt(7) as a factor. So that case actually says nothing about the earlier argument, which depends on the distributive property. If you wish to dispute with only one factor having 7 as its factor, then you might consider the more general case: Q(x) = (5b_1(x) + f_1)(5b_2(x) + f_2) where f_1 f_2 = 7, and b_1(x) f_2 = a_1(x) and b_2(x) f_2 = a_2(x) and answer the question of, what mathematical reason might there be for any particular choice for the f's? I've given a reason based on the distributive property and the constant terms. If you dispute that reason, you have an INFINITE number of possible algebraic integer f's that are available, so how do you choose one configuration? Note again the rest here is a side discussion noting how the cases at x = 1 mod 7 do not change the basic argument, which relies on the distributive property. That argument has gone through formal peer review and been published with the more complicated expressions I used in my paper on non-polynomial factorization, but then some social pressure was brought to bear agains the journal and the paper was pulled, and a bit later the journal keeled over and died. James Harris .............................................................. Gib Bogle wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > Oh, over the weekend I had a lot of trouble handling an example from a > > Rick Decker of Hamilton College that paralleled my own non-polynomial > > factorization argument with simpler quadratics where one had a special > > feature. > > > > I made a lot of posts claiming proof where the arguments did not prove > > what I thought they did when I posted them, and I was wrong. > > > > So yes, those previous claims of proof made a few days ago, were crap. > > > > Here is the correct answer to the Decker example. > > I love it. Upmteen wrong statements, repeated ad nauseam, and > accompanied by intemperate insults of all who pointed out the errors, > and all finally conceded to be wrong. Now, on the other hand, a true > statement. Yeah, right. The basic argument is the same one as has been used for years. It has been formally peer reviewed--and published in a math journal--and later the journal editors retracted and the journal died. What happened over the weekend is that I looked for another argument to go along with the one that has been checked so thoroughly, as you people keep fighting me over the distributive property, and I saw mirages. Big deal. In this thread I went back to the tried-and-true where I guess people will again argue with me over the freaking distributive property. Oh well. You losers don't make a lot of public mistakes as you don't try hard enough. It's like batting. So what if your average is high if you almost never go to the plate? And have such a high average as you have few at bats and never play in the big games? Never try, few failures, except that you are the failure. James Harris ...................................................... William Hughes wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > Oh, over the weekend I had a lot of trouble handling an example from a > > Rick Decker of Hamilton College that paralleled my own non-polynomial > > factorization argument with simpler quadratics where one had a special > > feature. > > > > I made a lot of posts claiming proof where the arguments did not prove > > what I thought they did when I posted them, and I was wrong. > > > > So yes, those previous claims of proof made a few days ago, were crap. > > > > Here is the correct answer to the Decker example. > > > > As a synoposis up front as I've had at least one poster ask for > > something beforehand that explains what's going to happen, I am going > > to use the Decker equations with the same approach I've used with my > > own more complex cubic generating equations to show a complete proof, > > which just so happens to shoot down standard usage of Galois Theory, > > and the theory of ideals. > > > > The approach is basic, relies on simple algebraic concepts, where the > > key step depends on the use of the distributive property. > > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, I have from Decker that > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7)
> > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0. > > > > Given > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7)
> > > > it cannot be the case that the 7's visible in the factorization both > > result from the 7 multiplied on the left side, as the constant term of > > Q(x) is coprime to 7, since it is 2. > > > > So both constant terms--those terms constant with respect to x--cannot > > be visible in the factorization. > > > > However, the actual constant terms can be determined by clearing x out, > > letting x=0, I have that one of the a's goes to 0, while the remaining > > one is -1, from > > > > a^2 + a = 0. > > > > And looking at > > > > 7 Q(0) = (5a_1(0) + 7)(5a_2(0) + 7) > > > > I have that the actual constant terms are 7 and 5(-1) + 7 = 2, but it's > > not mathematically determined which of the two factors was multiplied > > by 7, and which one actually is coprime to 7, but you know ONE must > > have been multiplied by 7, from the distributive property and the > > constant terms.
> > > > No, you don't. . > > Your have > > k (5a_1(x) +7) = (b(x) + 1) > > with b(0)=0 > and you conclude that k must be 1/7 and b(x) must be 5a_1(x)/7. That's not correct. Key here is that it is not determinable WHICH of the b's has been multiplied by 7, and which one has not. So you have 7 Q(0) = (5a_1(0) + 7)(5a_2(0) + 7) where you only know that one has 7 as a factor, and one does not, but there's no mathematical determination which one. But given that 7 is clearly a factor of only one, based on the constant terms, which is 7, for one and 2 for the other, it's shown that ONE of the a's in general has 7 as a factor, though, as has been pointed out repeatedly, an infinity of cases can be found where that is not true in the ring of algebraic integers. > However, this > is just one possibility. > > Try k = 1/(7(1+x^2)) then > > k(a(x) +7) = (5a_1(x)/(7(1+x^2) + 1/(1+x^2)) > =( [5a_1(x)/(7(1+x^2)) + 1/(1+x^2) -1] + 1) > > so k = 1/(7(1+x^2)) and b(x) = [5a_1(x)/(7(1+x^2)) + 1/(1+x^2) -1] > is another possibility. (There are in fact an infinite number > of possibilities.) The constant term in both cases is 7 before That's actually a good thing to consider when thinking about your objections--an infinite number of possibilities--so how does the math choose? The answer is that it is forced to go one way by the distributive property. The functions here are only different from the functions in the example 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) where a_1(x) = 7x and a_2(x) = x - 5, in that it is obscured WHICH function has 7 as a factor, except for rational cases. Now then, apply your exact same objection to the example I've shown, and you'll see that it still appears to work!!! Or do you disagree? If so, why can't you find a k with my simple example just like before? > multiplication > by k and 1 after multiplication by k. So looking at the constant term > cannot tell you which k was used. >
> -William Hughes But your argument if true would also prove the same thing about 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)(a_2(x) + 7) where a_1(x) = 7x and a_2(x) = x - 5. I suggest to you that your argument is flawed. James Harris .......................................................... Rick Decker wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > Oh, over the weekend I had a lot of trouble handling an example from a > > Rick Decker of Hamilton College that paralleled my own non-polynomial > > factorization argument with simpler quadratics where one had a special > > feature. > > > > I made a lot of posts claiming proof where the arguments did not prove > > what I thought they did when I posted them, and I was wrong. > > > > So yes, those previous claims of proof made a few days ago, were crap. > > > > Here is the correct answer to the Decker example. > > > > As a synoposis up front as I've had at least one poster ask for > > something beforehand that explains what's going to happen, I am going > > to use the Decker equations with the same approach I've used with my > > own more complex cubic generating equations to show a complete proof, > > which just so happens to shoot down standard usage of Galois Theory, > > and the theory of ideals. > > > > The approach is basic, relies on simple algebraic concepts, where the > > key step depends on the use of the distributive property. > > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, I have from Decker that > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7)
> > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0. > > > > Given > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7)
> > > > it cannot be the case that the 7's visible in the factorization both > > result from the 7 multiplied on the left side, as the constant term of > > Q(x) is coprime to 7, since it is 2. > > > > So both constant terms--those terms constant with respect to x--cannot > > be visible in the factorization. > > > > However, the actual constant terms can be determined by clearing x out, > > letting x=0, I have that one of the a's goes to 0, while the remaining > > one is -1, from > > > > a^2 + a = 0. > > > > And looking at > > > > 7 Q(0) = (5a_1(0) + 7)(5a_2(0) + 7) > > > > I have that the actual constant terms are 7 and 5(-1) + 7 = 2, but it's > > not mathematically determined which of the two factors was multiplied > > by 7, and which one actually is coprime to 7, but you know ONE must > > have been multiplied by 7, from the distributive property and the > > constant terms.
> > No. You keep tripping up on this point. Just because the product of > two numbers, pq, is divisible by 7 in the algebraic integers, you > cannot conclude that either p or q must be divisible by 7. That's > true in the integers, but is not true in the algebraic integers. I conclude nothing from the ring of algebraic integers, as I simply use the distributive property, and often do that without specifying a ring, which often evokes howls and questions like, in what ring? a(b+c) = ab +ac so knowing that the term constant with respect to x, for ONE of the factors is 7, while the other is 2, when 7 was multiplied across, I know that ONE of the functions has a factor of 7, from the distributive property, without need of mention of a ring. An example to explain the concept is 7(x^2 + 3x + 2) = (7x + 7)(x + 2) where the constant terms are 7 and 2, and the same argument proves that 7 was multiplied through the first factor. The only difference with your more complex equations is that since the a's are roots of a quadratic generator, their value is obscured by radicals EXCEPT when you have rational solutions. But my point is that the distributive property still holds whether you can see the answer directly or not. > > > > Note that the result that only one of the factors was multiplied by 7 > > follows from the distributive property, and noting the values of the > > constant terms. > > > > That completes the proof. It's rather short as you can see. > > It isn't a proof.
> Then point out an error. The steps are clearly outlined, and the most important step relies on the distributive property. Refuting that position requires refuting the distributive property. I think you are wrong and the distributive property is right. > Unsurprisingly, you've been seduced by the rational integers. > There are only two rational integers x that give rational integer > roots for > > r(a, x) = a^2 + (1 - x) a + 7(x^2 + x) > I have been seduced by algebra. And I LIKE the distributive property and refuse to give it up just because a lot of people argue with me, attacking it, because the key step in the proof relies on it. > namely, > > x = 0 r(a, x) = a^2 + a > x = -1 r(a, -1) = a^2 + 2 a > > In these two cases, your conjecture is true, namely that one of the > roots is dividible by 7 and the other is coprime to 7. > That's easy enough with 7 as the factor, but you can generalize to f, and use ANY rational f to be able to see the same result. The DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERY holds in all cases. > Unfortunately, these are the ONLY values of x for which the roots > behave as you want them to. > That is irrelevant as your example can be generalized. But it's also irrelevant because I have a short proof. > For example, let x = 3. We see that 7 Q(3) = 7(25(9) + 30(3) + 2) = > 7(317) and r(a, 3) = a^2 - 2 a + 7(12) so > > a_i = (2 +/- sqrt(4 - 4(84)) / 2 = 1 +/- sqrt(-83) > > and > > [5(1 + sqrt(-83)) + 7][5(1 - sqrt(-83)) + 7] > = [12 + 5 sqrt(-83)][12 - 5 sqrt(-83)] > = 144 + 25(83) > = 2219 = 7(317), as expected. > > However, neither of 1 +/- sqrt(-83) is divisible by 7. If one were, then > a = 7b for some algebraic integer b, but then we'd have > > (7b)^2 - 2(7b) + 7(12) = 0
> > from [1] with x = 3, so > > 49 b^2 - 2(7) b + 7(12) = 0 > > and hence b would satisfy the monic irreducible polynomial equation > > 7 b^2 - 2 b + 12 = 0. > > In addition, we can find explicit nonunit common factors of a and 7, > although it takes a bit of work. We can show that > > (4627 + 423 a)(4627 - 423 a) = 7^9 > > and > > (4627 + 423 a)(72192 - 512 a) = a^9 > > And since t = (4627 + 423 a)^{1/9) satisfies > > t^{18} - 10100 t^{9} + 40353607 = 0 > > we have that t is an algebraic integer nonunit common factor of a and 7, > establishing the fact that a and 7 are not coprime in the ring of > algebraic integers. Irrelevant to the question of proof. I focus on a short algebraic proof for a reason, which is that proof is supposed to be paramount. And I counter that the ring of algebraic integers is flawed in that it is not complete, so you can get some weird results that CONTRADICT the algebra. The only way to answer that claim is to go to the proof, and show that it is not a proof. > > > > It contradicts with standard ideas from Galois Theory because from that > > theory, if the a's are non-rational and irreducible over Q, > > [You mean "if r(a, x), considered as a polynomial in a, is irreducible > over Q."] > > > except for > > the special case where both have sqrt(7) which I'll go over next, then > > by those ideas NEITHER of the a's can have 7 as a factor. > > > That's right, but you don't need Galois Theory to establish that. In > this example, except for the two cases mentioned above (x = 0, -1), > either both roots will have 7 as a factor, or neither will. > > BTW, your "special case" isn't. > You may not need Galois Theory but the result sinks current usage. It also brings into question the theory of ideals. > > And it can be shown that neither does have 7 as a factor in the ring of > > algebraic integers.
> > Yes. > > > > But that then proves--as the simple proof cannot be wrong or it > > wouldn't be a proof--that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete, > > and for those who don't understand why it shows that, consider the > > analogy where considering evens as a ring, 2 and 6 are coprime in that > > ring because 3 is not even. > > > > Make sense? Similarly, 7 being coprime in the ring of algebraic > > integers, when it has been proven to be a factor by a simple algebraic > > proof, shows that it is excluded because its co-factor is not an > > algebraic integer. > > Go back to what I said above. If p and q are algebraic integers with > the product pq divisible by 7, you cannot conclude that either of > p or q must be divisible by 7. That's true in the rational numbers > but not true in the algebraic integers. > > > > I would be interested in at least some posters actually trying to > > answer the proof itself, and its steps, especially the key step where I > > note that the constant factor, which is 7, proves that 7 was multiplied > > through that particular factor. > > 7 is not a "prime" in the ring of algebraic integers. That's where your > explanation fails. > > > <snip> > It's not an explanation, it's a proof. I wish to remind people that there is a PROOF and that proof is usually mostly ignored so that people can start going on about the ring of algebraic integers and results in that ring. BUT my point is that the the proof shows a problem with the ring of algebraic integers, so why just keep going back to where I claim there's a problem? I say you do that because you can't answer the proof, refuse to acknowledge the truth, and have no where else to go. James Harris ....................................................... marcus_b wrote: > > Oh, over the weekend I had a lot of trouble handling an example from a > > Rick Decker of Hamilton College that paralleled my own non-polynomial > > factorization argument with simpler quadratics where one had a special > > feature. > > > > I made a lot of posts claiming proof where the arguments did not prove > > what I thought they did when I posted them, and I was wrong. > > > > So yes, those previous claims of proof made a few days ago, were crap. > > > > Here is the correct answer to the Decker example. > > > > As a synoposis up front as I've had at least one poster ask for > > something beforehand that explains what's going to happen, I am going > > to use the Decker equations with the same approach I've used with my > > own more complex cubic generating equations to show a complete proof,
> > which just so happens to shoot down standard usage of Galois Theory, > > and the theory of ideals. > > > > The approach is basic, relies on simple algebraic concepts, where the > > key step depends on the use of the distributive property. > > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, I have from Decker that > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7)
> > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0. > > Given > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > it cannot be the case that the 7's visible in the factorization both > > result from the 7 multiplied on the left side, as the constant term of > > Q(x) is coprime to 7, since it is 2. > > > > So both constant terms--those terms constant with respect to x--cannot > > be visible in the factorization. > >
> > However, the actual constant terms can be determined by clearing x out, > > letting x=0, I have that one of the a's goes to 0, while the remaining > > one is -1, from > > > > a^2 + a = 0. > > > > And looking at > > > > 7 Q(0) = (5a_1(0) + 7)(5a_2(0) + 7) > > > > I have that the actual constant terms are 7 and 5(-1) + 7 = 2, > > but it's > > not mathematically determined which of the two factors was multiplied > > by 7, and which one actually is coprime to 7, but you know ONE must > > have been multiplied by 7, from the distributive property and the > > constant terms. > > > > I need to fill in a few details to understand your argument. Please > bear with me. > > Let's go back to basics. You will agree that a key to your argument > is the constant terms. > Yes. And they are 7 and 2. > Your notation implies that a_1(x) and a_2(x) are functions of x. Yes, they are functions of x. > You know that a_1(0) = 0 and a_2(0) = -1. These are the constant > terms of these two functions. > Those are their values at 0. The constant terms are the factors of the constant term of the polynomial--and I remind that the polynomial is 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) where you can see that the constant term is 7(2). > Let f(x) be the maximal divisor of 7 which also divides a_1(x), > in the algebraic integers. That is, f(x) is an algebraic integer > and 7/f(x) is an algebraic integer and a_1(x)/f(x) is an algebraic > integer. I am not saying anything here about what f(x) actually > is. Ok. > > Define g(x) similarly for a_2(x): that is, g(x) is an algebraic > integer and 7/g(x) is an algebraic integer and a_2(x)/g(x) is > an algebraic integer. Ok. > Further it must be the case that f(x) g(x) = 7, because 7 > factors out of the whole expression only once. > Yup. > Now consider > > (5 a_1(x) + 7)/f(x) = 5 a_1(x)/f(x) + 7/f(x). > > This is an algebraic integer because each part is separately. > Ok. > Similarly, > > (5 a_2(x) + 7)/g(x) = 5 a_2(x)/g(x) + 7/g(x). > > Now, what you claim is that f(x) must equal 7 for all x and > g(x) must equal 1 for all x, at least up to units. Huh? I claim that the distributive property proves that one factor is multiplied through by 7, while the other is not. And here it IS important to be extremely precise about what I claim, as what you just said I claim, is kind of all over the map in comparison, and notice, you make NO MENTION OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY. I wish to emphasize that while my actual claim relies on the distributive property. YOU MAKE NO MENTION OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY. Let's cut to the chase. You will note that you can find algebraic integers for f(x) and g(x), and I will say, so? The distributive property still works, so what is the other possible explanation? I am curious to know if you are willing to even concede that there is a possible explanation for how 7 can multiply through by the distributive property, and yet you can find f(x) and g(x) in the ring of algebraic integers. Can you think of a way? > Here is how I think your reasoning goes, though you don't spell it > all out here. > > The constant term of 5 a_2(x) + 7 must be > > 5 a_2(0) + 7 = 5*(-1) + 7 = 2. > > Therefore the constant term of > > (5 a_2(x) + 7)/g(x)
> > must be 2/g(x). No. The mathematics only tells you from the constant terms that one of the a's has been multiplied through by 7, while one has not, but not which one. By the distributive property, there is only one conclusion. Now then, how do you explain that f(x) and g(x) can be found where they are algebraic integers, when it can be shown that if f(x)=7, there are non-rational cases where they are not? I can explain it. If you wish, you can try to avoid my questions in this area, and then I can come back and explain exactly how. > > Now, since g(x) is a divisor of 7, it is coprime to 2. So > the only possibility for g(x) is that it is a unit, i.e., it > is essentially equal to 1. And then you can conclude f(x) must > be 7.
> > Is this a reasonable summary of your logic? > > Marcus > You left in the rest of what I said, and I'll truncate it in a bit, but I want to leave in the next two paragraphs. > > Note that the result that only one of the factors was multiplied by 7 > > follows from the distributive property, and noting the values of the > > constant terms. > > > > That completes the proof. It's rather short as you can see. > > My position relies on a(b+c) = ab + ac and talk about units here or units there and what's true in the ring of algebraic integers do not change the reality of the key step in the proof. The ring of algebraic integers is a complex entity made more complex by special rules which some of you are acting like you don't understand, so you get results that contradict with what can be shown by proof. So with the ring of algebraic integers you can contradict the distributive property. Fun stuff, if you're a mathematician, a real one. But ultimately you have to resolve the contradiction to show that mathematics IS consistent...if you're a real mathematician. James Harris ..................................................... I've been working a bit at getting a disproof showing the problem with Galois Theory that removes all possibility for disagreement that isn't just clearly bogus grasping at failed ideas. Here it is. Again starting with the equations given by Rick Decker of Hamilton College, In the ring of algebraic integers, consider 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 where Decker chose this example because when x=1 mod 7, the middle term has 7 as a factor which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of the expressions, except for the special cases. The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 Now choose an integer value for a, like a=3, so that you have a non-monic polynomial irreducible over Q, and therefore, you have that x cannot be an algebraic integer. But because 3 is coprime to 7 I know that the other solution for 'a' MUST have 7 as a factor, right? But now I just go back to a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 and note that for any solution for x that resulted from my previous equation, where again, I know that x cannot be an algebraic integer there is now NO way that x can be a ratio of algebraic integers with a denominator wiht only SOME factors in common with 7, and that quadratic have a root that has 7 as a factor. It's a mathematical impossibility. So there is a direct contradiction with the result from the ring of algebraic integers, as with one integer 'a' such that a^2 + a is coprime to 7, it MUST be the case that the other 'a' has 7 as a factor, while that is impossible in the ring of algebraic integers, while there is no meaningful way for that 'a' to be like some kind of fraction i.e. a ratio of algebraic integers where the numerator and denominator are actually coprime. However, it CAN be written as a ratio of algebraic integers where the numerator and denominator are coprime in the ring of algebraic integers, which directly shows the apparent contradiction, which is resolved by recognizing the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete. Denial of the mathematics does not change anything. Bogus math ideas that DO NOT WORK are not worth fighting for. I hope that some of you choose to be mathematicians versus people who just claim to be mathematicians. Each day that you let the false mathematical ideas reign supreme is another day you take away time with the correct and more powerful ideas from humanity. You are attacking the future of humanity, and fighting against correct and powerful mathematical ideas to hold on to bogus ones that DO NOT ACTUALLY WORK, which can be proven wrong with trivial algebra!!! Why do it? James Harris. ........................................................ William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > I've been working a bit at getting a disproof showing the problem with > > Galois Theory that removes all possibility for disagreement that isn't > > just clearly bogus grasping at failed ideas. > > > > Here it is. > > What is this, the fifth in 24 hours? > So? This exposition leaves no room for arguing, which is why I guess you started with social crap. Who cares how long it takes me to explain in a way that no one can refute, once I achieve the goal? See below. The goal is achieved. > > > > > Again starting with the equations given by Rick Decker of Hamilton > > College, In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > >
> > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > where Decker chose this example because when x=1 mod 7, the middle term > > has 7 as a factor which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my > > ideas because at x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides > > through only one of the expressions, except for the special cases. > > > > The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and > > write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that > > becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > Now choose an integer value for a, like a=3, so that you have a > > non-monic polynomial irreducible over Q, and therefore, you have that x > > cannot be an algebraic integer. > > > > But because 3 is coprime to 7 I know that the other solution for 'a' > > MUST have 7 as a factor, right? > > > > But now I just go back to > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > and note that for any solution for x that resulted from my previous > > equation, where again, I know that x cannot be an algebraic integer > > there is now NO way that x can be a ratio of algebraic integers with a > > denominator wiht only SOME factors in common with 7, and that quadratic > > have a root that has 7 as a factor. > > > > Why? This is not clear at all? Are you still using, "if a doesn't > divide b and a doesn't divide c, then a doesn't divide (b+c)"? > > > -William Hughes Choose an 'a' that is an integer, such that a^2 + a is coprime to 7, for instance, let one of the a's equal 3. Then 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 will be irreducible over Q, proving that x cannot be an algebraic integer. Now let x = d/c, where d and c are pairwise coprime and algebraic integers, and make the substitution into a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 which gives a^2 - (d/c - 1)a + 7(d^2/c^2 + d/c) = 0 which is a^2 - (d/c - 1)a + (7(d^2 + cd))/c^2 = 0 and if c is not coprime to 7, then neither solution for 'a' can have 7 as a factor, but given the integer 'a' previously chosen, it MUST be the case that 7 is a factor of the other one, and the contradiction is shown. You see, if c has just some factors in common with 7 while being coprime to others then those factors will divide off from 7, leaving them unavailable for the a's, but with one of the a's coprime to 7, like if it's 3, the other of the a's MUST have 7 itself as a factor. Trivial it's so easy. You see, c must be a unit, but provably cannot be a unit in the ring of algebraic integers, proving quite simply that that ring is incomplete. There is no room left for argument. The ring of algebraic integers has been shown to be incomplete, disproving the standard usage of Galois Theory, and showing the theory of ideals is flawed. It's so simple that it's hard to imagine what would convince you if that doesn't. James Harris ................................................................ Let's just say for the sake of argument that mathematicians just came out and acknowledged that through accidents of history and subtlety of some difficult concepts an erroneous group of techniques became dominant in number theory. That news would make headlines around the world. Now though, there is quiet, so let's look at the other way this can work out, as mathematicians can instead try to ignore the result. Then, as history shows, the result will emerge eventually as there is over 10,000 years of human civilization where these kinds of battles have played out, and the side opposing the truth, has always lost. If the story emerges within a couple of years then clearly mathematicians will have been gambling on it not coming out within their careers, and will have lost that gamble. Why is it a gamble? Well these things have happened before. In the physics field recently there was the emergence of quantum mechanic and relativity, where adjustments had to be made with dramatic consequences for the entire world. The physicists absorbed the impact, fought a bit, yes, but quickly came on the side of truth. If mathematicians do not, then they will still lose, but they also get a much darker story, and those mathematicians who are in powerful positions when the story comes out, will probably take the worst of it. Social castigation. Their pictures in the papers. Reporters hounding them with hard questions. And it won't end during their lifetimes. These stories are huge on a scale that's hard to comprehend. They keep coming but people never see them coming. The stories get bigger with time, but while you're living in it, it can seem unimaginable. Simple self-preservation would make some of you sing like canaries at this point if you had any sense of what is going to come, while otherwise you have to hold on to the belief that you can play the odds, play for time, and hope that the story stays buried long enough for you to have a long career in mathematics, retire, and die with no one ever knowing the truth. Let the future handle it, you may think. But you will not get that time. I'll make sure you don't get that time. You will not get to grow old and die with the world thinking you're something you're not. The story will come out before then and instead you'll be castigated by world society. I'll paint you for what you are--a dangerous element in society fighting against the foundations of society and technological progress--and remind that if people like you ever succeed then our Progress as a species, comes to a screeching halt. What if physicists had tried and succeeded at what some of you may now think you can succeed at? What if they'd shut down Einstein's work, ignored his papers? What if they'd fought quantum mechanics tooth-and-nail? What if they'd blocked the knowledge? Well, I wouldn't be typing this up on this computer as computers wouldn't be here. Or maybe we'd have some kind of clunky mechanical computer, but would we have had the transistor, and the technological revolution? Or might we have physicists fighting to explain odd behavior within the framework of the old knowledge, vigorously attacking "cranks" and "crackpots" who attempted to push through the ideas of quantum mechanics? You will not succeed in blocking the knowledge. But if you attempt to do so, when you are broken, you lose so much. So why bother? Why not just tell the truth now? Why fight the future? James Harris ...................................................... Jesse F. Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com writes: > > > Then, as history shows, the result will emerge eventually as there > > is over 10,000 years of human civilization where these kinds of > > battles have played out, and the side opposing the truth, has always > > lost. > > How do you *know* that the side oppressing the truth has always lost? > You'd never hear about the battle if they'd won. > The mathematical ideas I have are likely to be important in the sciences. We know the wrong side hasn't won because we have the scientific progress to show it. Mathematics has been the backbone of the sciences. There are rumblings of problems with the current mathematical ideas from the world of physics already. My ideas in areas like non-polynomial factorization may have practical importance in quantum mechanics, for instance, and could lead to major advances in our understanding of our physical world. So, yeah, I thought for a while that maybe the wrong side could win and you'd have some poor slob who had these important ideas that were lost to history, but somehow there seems to be an arrow of Progress that doesn't allow that to actually happen, though I guess you could claim that our technology could be light years ahead of where it is now, if some person way back hadn't had their ideas quashed. I say, the world seems to barely be able to handle where we are now, let alone us being even further ahead, so everything seems to happen in its own time according to some super plan that cannot be beaten. James Harris ........................................... In the ring of algebraic integers, consider 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 where Decker chose this example because when x=1 mod 7, the middle term has 7 as a factor which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of the expressions, except for the special cases. The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 as solving for x gives x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 where you can see by inspection that if 'a' has 7 as a factor, then x is an algebraic integer. Notice the 14 in the denominator gives you 2 and 7, where both have to divide off for x to be in the ring of algebraic integers. But let w_1 w_2 = 7, where w_1 and w_2 are those factors where each is non-unit, and a = w_1 b as then you have x = ((b - w_2) +/- sqrt(-27b^2 - 6w_2b + w_2^2))/2w_2 showing that w_2 is left in the denominator, but for x to be an algebraic integer with w_2 a non-unit, it MUST divide back through the numerator, where it would need do so by sign. For instance, then x = ((b - w_2) + sqrt(-27b^2 - 6w_2b + w_2^2))/2w_2 might be an algebraic integer, while x = ((b - w_2) - sqrt(-27b^2 - 6w_2b + w_2^2))/2w_2 would not, but that's impossible by symmetry rules, proving that x cannot be an algebraic integer for that case. What happens then whenboth of the a's appear to have non-unit factors in the ring of algebraic integers in common with 7? Well, for one of them the factor is algebraically a unit, so it simply divides through BOTH cases, without regard to sign, leaving an algebraic integer x. Of course, if some of you wish to disagree with me on this point, then feel free, but notice we're at the end of the proof. I am curious to see if any will attack the idea that symmetry rules prevent x from being an algebraic integer. That's because those ideas should be familiar. James Harris ........................................................ William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > >
> And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > by 7 nor coprime to 7. In what ring? > > E.g. Take x=2 > > We get > > a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) > > The roots are >
> a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 > > Both a_1 and a_2 are roots of > > 49a^2 -7a + 42 =0 > > and hence of > > 7a^2 -a + 6 =0 > > But the last is primitive, non-monic, irreducible over Q and > has integer coefficients. Thus a_1/7 and a_2/7 are not > algebraic integers, so neither a_1 nor a_2 is divisible > by 7. But a1*a2=42 so neither a_1 nor a_2 is coprime > to 7. > > -William Hughes In what ring? James Harris ............................................ William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > William Hughes wrote: > > > jstevh@msn.com wrote:
> > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > >
> > > and > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > > > by 7 nor coprime to 7. > > > > In what ring? > > > > > >
> > E.g. Take x=2 > > > > > > We get > > > > > > a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > > > > > (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) > > > > > > The roots are > > > > > > a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 > > > > > > Both a_1 and a_2 are roots of > > > > > > 49a^2 -7a + 42 =0 > > > > > > and hence of > > > > > > 7a^2 -a + 6 =0 > > > > > > But the last is primitive, non-monic, irreducible over Q and > > > has integer coefficients. Thus a_1/7 and a_2/7 are not > > > algebraic integers, so neither a_1 nor a_2 is divisible > > > by 7. But a1*a2=42 so neither a_1 nor a_2 is coprime > > > to 7. > > > > > > -William Hughes > > > > In what ring? > > > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > -William Hughes Yup. Now let's focus on the solution for x. 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 so solving for x gives x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 where the original in the Decker example has a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 so you can just pick an x, solve for the a's using the quadratic formula and plug that back into the solution for x. I pick x=3. That gives a = 1 + sqrt(-83). Working it out, hopefully I got the algebra right, I get x = (-6 + sqrt(-83) +/- sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))/14 and I can multiply top and bottom by (-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83)) use x=3, and simplify to get 1 = (-54 + 2sqrt(-83)/((-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))) so (-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))) = -54 + 2sqrt(-83) and the result by symmetry that -54 + 2sqrt(-83) must have 7 as a factor, which it provably does not in the ring of algebraic integers, so there is the appearance of a contradiction. Hopefully I got all the algebra right. Comments? Note that for x to be an algebraic integer it must be the case that 14 divides through x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 or you have what is the equivalent of a fraction, but with non-rationals. Oddly enough, you can just pick some x, like I did and work through to find as I have that you get a contradiction with the ring of algebraic integers, when, of course x is an algebraic integer. Fun, eh? If you like contradictory mathematical ideas, run yourself in circles. I like mathematical ideas that work. James Harris ............................................. William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > William Hughes wrote: > > > jstevh@msn.com wrote:
> > > > William Hughes wrote: > > > > > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > > > > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > > > > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > >
> > > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > > > > > > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > > > > > >
> > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > > > > > by 7 nor coprime to 7. > > > > > > > > In what ring? > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> E.g. Take x=2 > > > > > > > > > > We get > > > > > > > > > > a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > > > > > > > > > (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) >
> > > > > > > > > The roots are > > > > > > > > > > a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 > > > > > > > > > > Both a_1 and a_2 are roots of >
> > > > > > > > > 49a^2 -7a + 42 =0 > > > > > > > > > > and hence of > > > > > > > > > > 7a^2 -a + 6 =0 > > > > > > > > > > But the last is primitive, non-monic, irreducible over Q and > > > > > has integer coefficients. Thus a_1/7 and a_2/7 are not > > > > > algebraic integers, so neither a_1 nor a_2 is divisible > > > > > by 7. But a1*a2=42 so neither a_1 nor a_2 is coprime
> > > > > to 7. > > > > > > > > > > -William Hughes > > > > > > > > In what ring? > > > > > > > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > In the ring of algebraic integers, consider > > > > > > -William Hughes > > > > Yup. Now let's focus on the solution for x. > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > so solving for x gives > > > > x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 > > >
> where the original in the Decker example has > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > so you can just pick an x, solve for the a's using the quadratic > > formula and plug that back into the solution for x. > > >
> I pick x=3. That gives a = 1 + sqrt(-83). > > > > Working it out, hopefully I got the algebra right, I get > > > > x = (-6 + sqrt(-83) +/- sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))/14 > > > That should be > > x = (-6 + sqrt(-83) +/- sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(-83)))/14 > > (increment the Oops counter). No need, as I just left off a parenthesis on the end which doesn't change anything. > > Note that > > 3 = (-6 + sqrt(-83) + sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(-83)))/14 > > So one of the solutions is x=3 to nobody's surprise. > Well, yeah, that's ONE solution, but you cheat! You deleted out the entire argument which shows another solution, and then just state what you want, after trying to make the trivial leaving off of a parentheses into something it's not. Here's the argument again, which you deleted out, with the fix: I pick x=3. That gives a = 1 + sqrt(-83). Working it out, hopefully I got the algebra right, I get x = (-6 + sqrt(-83) +/- sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83)))/14 and I can multiply top and bottom by (-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83)) use x=3, and simplify to get 1 = (-54 + 2sqrt(-83)/((-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))) so (-6 + sqrt(-83) -/+ sqrt(2221 - 96sqrt(83))) = -54 + 2sqrt(-83) and the result by symmetry that -54 + 2sqrt(-83) must have 7 as a factor, which it provably does not in the ring of algebraic integers, so there is the appearance of a contradiction. Hopefully I got all the algebra right. Comments? And no just deleting everything out to proclaim your own solution! You people need to start following some basic rules. James Harris ................................................ marcus_b wrote: > William Hughes wrote ... > > [snip] > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > by 7 nor coprime to 7. > > E.g. Take x=2 > > We get > > a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) > > The roots are > > a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > [snip] > > It was noted in a long-distant post by Keith Ramsay that > > a_1 = (1 + sqrt(-167))/2 is such that > > a_1^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(-12882 - 2017*a_1) and > > 7^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(44555 + 222*a_1). > > Therefore a_1^11 and 7^11 share an algebraic integer factor, > namely > > 44555 - 222*a_1. > > Therefore a_1 and 7 share the algebraic integer factor > > (44555 - 222*a_1)^(1/11). > > Note that 44555 is divisible by 7, but a_1 is not (in the > algebraic integers). Therefore this common algebraic integer > factor is not divisible by 7. > It's not divisible by 7 in the ring of algebraic integers. You keep going in circles around that central point. My counter would be that one solution of the 11 generated by that radical expression as it is taking the 11th root, does have 7 as a factor. But rather than argue that point let me show you the simple way to see a contradiction if I'm wrong, as I just figured it out. > Which proves very explicitly that Harris is wrong. The algebraic > integers are NOT "incomplete". > > Marcus They are, as this simple algebra shows. I have from before a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 from which I can easily get 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 and this time I'll choose an integer value for a, like a=3, so that I have a non-monic polynomial irreducible over Q for x. But because 3 is coprime to 7 I know that the other solution for 'a' MUST have 7 as a factor, right? But now I just go back to a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 and note that for any solution for x, remember x is NOT an algebraic integer, where x as a ratio of algebraic integers has factors in common with 7, while being coprime to some factors of 7, it is NOT possible that the a's have 7 as a factor, which is a direct contradiction with one of the a's being 3, and thus forcing the other of the a's to have 7 as a factor. Interestingly enough, there is no meaningful way to consider the second a which is NOT an algebraic integer to be a fraction, so the ring of algebraic integers is easily shown to be incomplete as I've said. Done arguing yet? Why fight for ideas that can so easily be shown to be mathematically incorrect? What do you think, you get some prize for using bogus math? James Harris .......................................... marcus_b wrote: >
>marcus_b wrote: > >> William Hughes wrote ... > > > [snip] > > >> a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > >> And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > >> by 7 nor coprime to 7. > > >> E.g. Take x=2 > > >> We get > > >> a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > >> (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) > > >> The roots are > > >> a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [snip] > > >> It was noted in a long-distant post by Keith Ramsay that > >
>> a_1 = (1 + sqrt(-167))/2 is such that > > >> a_1^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(-12882 - 2017*a_1) and > > >> 7^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(44555 + 222*a_1). > > >> Therefore a_1^11 and 7^11 share an algebraic integer factor, > >> namely > > >> 44555 - 222*a_1. > > >> Therefore a_1 and 7 share the algebraic integer factor > > >> (44555 - 222*a_1)^(1/11). > > >> Note that 44555 is divisible by 7, but a_1 is not (in the > >> algebraic integers). Therefore this common algebraic integer > >> factor is not divisible by 7. > > >It's not divisible by 7 in the ring of algebraic integers. > > Yes - that's what I said. Neither a_1 nor a_2 is divisible > by 7, and neither is coprime to 7. Since I gave an explicit > common factor, this is not a case where you depend on > Dedekind's theorem (on ideals) to show that a common factor > exists. Therefore your claim that you have found a problem > with the theory of ideals does not apply. > But I've proven that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete. The belief that it is complete relies on a false claim of proof using the theory of ideals made by Dedekind, brining the theory of ideals into question. > >You keep going in circles around that central point. > > >My counter would be that one solution of the 11 generated by that > >radical expression as it is taking the 11th root, does have 7 as a > >factor. > > All you need to consider here is a_1. Since it does not have 7 > as a factor and it is not coprime to 7, and since a_1 * a_2 is > divisible by 7, both a_1 and a_2 are not coprime to 7 and not > divisible by 7. > That's the case IN THE RING OF ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS where I can show that you get a contradiction with that ring, as I did in reply to you, quite simply. You can do the same thing with 2 and 6 in the ring of evens, where one person can claim that 2 is not coprime to 6, while the other keeps claiming it is, while they remain in the ring of evens. You cannot disprove my claims by relying on results in the ring of algebraic integers, any more than someone could prove that 2 is coprime to 6 by remaining in the ring of evens. It just doesn't fly. > >But rather than argue that point let me show you the simple way to see > >a contradiction if I'm wrong, as I just figured it out. > > >> Which proves very explicitly that Harris is wrong. The algebraic > >> integers are NOT "incomplete". > >
>> Marcus > > >They are, as this simple algebra shows. > > >I have from before > > >a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > >from which I can easily get
> > >7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > >and this time I'll choose an integer value for a, like a=3, so that I > >have a non-monic polynomial irreducible over Q for x. > > >But because 3 is coprime to 7 I know that the other solution for 'a' > >MUST have 7 as a factor, right? > > No - you are now considering this as a polynomial in "x". You > chose a value for "a", and then you solve for "x". You have to > decide one at a time which variables you are treating as constants > and which as 'unknowns'. Here you are treating "x" as the unknown, > and "a" as a constant. > That's not mathematics! Obviously if one of the choices for 'a' is 3, then there is a resultant x, which must fulfil the conditions of all the equations. > > >But now I just go back to > > >a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > >and note that for any solution for x, remember x is NOT an algebraic > >integer, where x as a ratio of algebraic integers has factors in common > >with 7, while being coprime to some factors of 7, it is NOT possible > >that the a's have 7 as a factor, which is a direct contradiction with > >one of the a's being 3, and thus forcing the other of the a's to have 7 > >as a factor. > > No - you're just confusing yourself on this. You either choose > x and solve for a, or you choose a and solve for x. You don't get > to do both at the same time. > Um, do you think that if you do one you don't do the other? That is, given a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 and a choice for 'a', you are claiming that you can't use that solution with 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 the same exact equation, just written in a slightly different way? They are the SAME equation, just written two different ways!!! With the second and a choice for one of the a's that is an integer and coprime to 7, where a^2 + a is coprime to 7, solutions for x must fit the same equation. I just wrote the same equation two different ways, but it's the same damn equation! If math people are going to go this far then I wonder how there can be any hope. You throw algebra away as if it were trash. James Harris .................................................... marcus_b wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > marcus_b wrote: > > > >marcus_b wrote: > > > >> William Hughes wrote ... > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > >> a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > >> And we have many many cases where neither root is divisible > > > >> by 7 nor coprime to 7. > > > > > > >> E.g. Take x=2 > > > > > > >> We get > > > > > > >> a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > > > > > >> (note the middle term does not have 7 as a factor) > > > > > > >> The roots are > > > > > > >> a_1 = (1+sqrt(-167))/2 and a_2=(1+sqrt(-167))/2 > > > > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > >> It was noted in a long-distant post by Keith Ramsay that > > > > > > >> a_1 = (1 + sqrt(-167))/2 is such that > > > > > >
>> a_1^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(-12882 - 2017*a_1) and > > > > > > >> 7^11 = (44555 - 222*a_1)*(44555 + 222*a_1). > > > > > > >> Therefore a_1^11 and 7^11 share an algebraic integer factor, > > > >> namely > > > > > > >> 44555 - 222*a_1. > > > > > > >> Therefore a_1 and 7 share the algebraic integer factor > > > > > > >> (44555 - 222*a_1)^(1/11). > > > > > > >> Note that 44555 is divisible by 7, but a_1 is not (in the > > > >> algebraic integers). Therefore this common algebraic integer > > > >> factor is not divisible by 7. > > > > > > >It's not divisible by 7 in the ring of algebraic integers. > > > > > > Yes - that's what I said. Neither a_1 nor a_2 is divisible > > > by 7, and neither is coprime to 7. Since I gave an explicit > > > common factor, this is not a case where you depend on > > > Dedekind's theorem (on ideals) to show that a common factor > > > exists. Therefore your claim that you have found a problem > > > with the theory of ideals does not apply. > > > > > > > But I've proven that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete. > > > > The belief that it is complete relies on a false claim of proof using > > the theory of ideals made by Dedekind, brining the theory of ideals > > into question. > > > > > >You keep going in circles around that central point. > > > > > > >My counter would be that one solution of the 11 generated by that > > > >radical expression as it is taking the 11th root, does have 7 as a > > > >factor. >
> > > > > All you need to consider here is a_1. Since it does not have 7 > > > as a factor and it is not coprime to 7, and since a_1 * a_2 is > > > divisible by 7, both a_1 and a_2 are not coprime to 7 and not > > > divisible by 7. > > > > > > > That's the case IN THE RING OF ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS where I can show that > > you get a contradiction with that ring, as I did in reply to you, quite > > simply. > > > > You can do the same thing with 2 and 6 in the ring of evens, where one > > person can claim that 2 is not coprime to 6, while the other keeps > > claiming it is, while they remain in the ring of evens. > > > > You cannot disprove my claims by relying on results in the ring of > > algebraic integers, any more than someone could prove that 2 is coprime > > to 6 by remaining in the ring of evens. > > > > It just doesn't fly. > > > > > >But rather than argue that point let me show you the simple way to see > > > >a contradiction if I'm wrong, as I just figured it out. > > > > > > >> Which proves very explicitly that Harris is wrong. The algebraic > > > >> integers are NOT "incomplete".
> > > > > > >> Marcus > > > > > > >They are, as this simple algebra shows. > > > > > > >I have from before > > > > > > >a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > >from which I can easily get > > > > > > >7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > > > >and this time I'll choose an integer value for a, like a=3, so that I > > > >have a non-monic polynomial irreducible over Q for x. > > >
> > > >But because 3 is coprime to 7 I know that the other solution for 'a' > > > >MUST have 7 as a factor, right? > > > > > > No - you are now considering this as a polynomial in "x". You > > > chose a value for "a", and then you solve for "x". You have to > > > decide one at a time which variables you are treating as constants > > > and which as 'unknowns'. Here you are treating "x" as the unknown, > > > and "a" as a constant. > > > > >
> > That's not mathematics! Obviously if one of the choices for 'a' is 3, > > then there is a resultant x, which must fulfil the conditions of all > > the equations. > > > > > > > > >But now I just go back to > > > > > > >a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > >and note that for any solution for x, remember x is NOT an algebraic > > > >integer, where x as a ratio of algebraic integers has factors in common > > > >with 7, while being coprime to some factors of 7, it is NOT possible > > > >that the a's have 7 as a factor, which is a direct contradiction with > > > >one of the a's being 3, and thus forcing the other of the a's to have 7 > > > >as a factor. > > > >
> > No - you're just confusing yourself on this. You either choose > > > x and solve for a, or you choose a and solve for x. You don't get > > > to do both at the same time. > > > > > > > Um, do you think that if you do one you don't do the other? > > > > That is, given > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > and a choice for 'a', you are claiming that you can't use that solution > > with > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > the same exact equation, just written in a slightly different way? > > > > They are the SAME equation, just written two different ways!!! > > > > With the second and a choice for one of the a's that is an integer and > > coprime to 7, where a^2 + a is coprime to 7, solutions for x must fit > > the same equation. > > > > I just wrote the same equation two different ways, but it's the same > > damn equation! > > > > If math people are going to go this far then I wonder how there can be > > any hope. > > > > You throw algebra away as if it were trash. > > > > You know, the bottom line on this is the following. You say > that in the algebraic integers, one root of > > a^2 - a + 42 = 0 > > *should* have 7 as a factor, while the other is coprime to 7. And that's just NOT true, as it's possible to prove that they do not. I can then show a contradiction with the ring of algebraic integers, which is equivalent to showing a contradiction with someone in the ring of evens claiming that 2 is coprime to 6. The analogy should not escape you. > Yet you know, and we all know, that a theorem of Dedekind > and a theorem in Galois theory both say that that is not true. So > you concluded that Dedekind's theorem is false and Galois theory > is wrong. You also concluded that the algebraic integers are > incomplete in the sense that they do not permit a factorization > of the kind that you want. > That's not true. I prove that you get the appearance of a contradiction if you assume that the ring of algebraic integers is complete. That proof is so trivial, you just ignored it in your reply, though at least you didn't delete it out! By picking an 'a' that is an *integer* and coprime to 7, like 3, I can easily show a contradiction with standard teaching, and I see you are just blissfully trying to ignore the proof. I have a question for you if you wish to maintain that you can only use those equations once, how do you suppose that knowing 3 is one of the a's, you would get the other one? > But I showed explicitly, without any appeal to either Dedekind's > theorem or Galois theory, that neither root is coprime to 7 and > neither root is divisible by 7. Both roots have algebraic integer > factors in common with 7. Factors of 7 are distributed across > both roots. > That is true IN THE RING OF ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS so around and around we go. Just like if I were arguing with someone claiming that 2 is coprime to 6 who stayed in the ring of evens, repeating over and over again that 2 is coprime to 6 as they can prove--but needing me to keep reminding that the ring is evens!!! It's exactly the same thing. > You say this cannot happen in the algebraic integers. But I No I DO NOT!! Why make a false claim? The very point I make is that it's true in the ring of algebraic integers proving that ring is incomplete!!! Can you hear yourself? Take away your personal feelings. Forget about me. This is not personal. What's correct is what's important. Focus on the math, and not the social stuff. > showed it can. You can verify it by just carrying out the arithmetic. > It is just a matter of brute calculation, just as true as 2 + 2 = 4. > > Therefore what you claimed is wrong. Therefore you have an > error which you have not yet recognized. Getting mad at me > for pointing this out is rather unproductive, don't you think? > Shouldn't you be trying to find the mistake in your reasoning? > > Marcus > I'm not mad at you. I am a bit exasperated yes, but look at what you're doing! In one reply you claim I can't use the same equation twice, making up some bizarre non-math rule. Here you claim that I make a claim that I do not, relying on proof of something being true in the ring of algebraic integers when I repeatedly explain why that's specious, and you end by just declaring that I am wrong. Where in your training as a math student did they teach you to make up things that are not true, deny mathematical proof, and ultimately just state something that you should realize is mathematically false--because the proof is in front of you and EASY--but instead you just go with your own opinion as if mathematics were trash? Is mathematics of no real importance to you? Is it just junk with no meaning or great purpose? Do you see math as garbage? If not, then why lie? I am serious. If you actually value mathematics, why lie about it? James Harris .............................................. Now I'm going to go over the Decker example and how it refutes the standard teaching of Galois Theory, and it turns out that it shows the theory of ideals to be flawed as well, but it's more convoluted to explain why that's true and I'll leave that explanation as it is somewhat technical to others. This example because of the use of simple quadratics takes away the objections of posters who have inexplicably refused to accept the distributive property in proofs I've shown with my own more complicated expressions. And also I'm starting with equations put up by a Rick Decker, so it's not like I picked them personally. The attempt will be to have everthing below in the ring of algebraic integers, so consider that the ring, but notice at a key point, we will be forced out of that ring. Consider 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 where Decker chose this example because at x=1, the middle term goes to 0 which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of the expressions, but clearly it does not at x=1, but that special case doesn't change the refutation so I'll leave out the explanation of it The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that importantly becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 and using a = 7b, you get 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 and dividing off 7, gives you x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an algebraic integer x. Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is irreducible over Q. BUT a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 means that for ANY algebraic integer x, 'a' is an algebraic integer, but if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 will not allow an algebraic integer x, if 'a' is an integer and the quadratic is irreducible over Q. So you are forced out of the ring of algebraic integers. Algebraically you still have x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 but the 'b' is outside of the ring of algebraic integers for certain algebraic integer values of x. To save Galois Theory and the theory of ideals, the attempted defense of those ideas at this point would require that for some non-rational 'a' with partial factors of 7, as it is a root of a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 with an integer x other than x=1, you would get a polynomial with an integer solution for x from 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 which would remain non-monic because the factors of 7 not in common with 'a' would remain on the leading coefficient. However, you can simply pick some x, like x=3, and solve for the a's, and then make the substitution in which will give a seemingly non-monic expression of some complexity as it will have square root radicals, but you can use basic algebraic manipulations to remove the square roots, giving you a quartic, where you will find that the leading coefficient just divides off, as one of the roots will be 3, so it will also be reducible over Q. So Galois Theory as a way to determine where factors go is refuted, and it is proven that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete, so that some numbers are excluded simply because they are not roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients, which leads to the conclusion that the theory of ideals is flawed. This post marks the end of an era in the world of mathematics. James Harris ....................................... .. José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > This post marks the end of an era in the world of mathematics. > > When will the rest of the world notice that? > > Best regards, > > Jose Carlos Santos A couple of days? I'm not sure, but it's likely to be quick. The problem with my previous examples were things like very complicated expressions and the ability of people to find areas where they could I guess think they saw reason for doubt. Decker's example removes a lot of those areas and relies on quadratics which are easier for people. With that said, the problem for professors who may think that they can go on with the other teaching is that the story can travel to their students who will be confused and hurt if men they admire and think a lot of, try to ignore one of the biggest stories in math history, and teach them flawed information. So it's likely that the argument will fly around the world. People may sit for a while, but mathematics is a difficult disciplne. Even if they try, math students will find it hard to work at learning ideas that more and more of them know do not work. The odd thing is that some probably will try. Here's a better ending than in my original post: Taking 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 I need to actually solve for x using the quadratic formula: x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(a^2 - 14a + 49 -28a^2 - 28a))/14 so x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 where now it's still clear that with a = 7b, you end up with an algebraic integer x, while if 'a' is coprime to 7 or, following standard teaching of Galois Theory, just has some factors in common with 7, then x is not an algebraic integer. That's neat, ties it all up and leave no room for mathematical doubt or arguments about functions and constants. Telling tests of character are coming for many of you in the next few hours and days. James Harris .................................................. David Moran wrote: > <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message > news:1139086835.818988.158310@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > > Now I'm going to go over the Decker example and how it refutes the > > standard teaching of Galois Theory, and it turns out that it shows the > > theory of ideals to be flawed as well, but it's more convoluted to > > explain why that's true and I'll leave that explanation as it is > > somewhat technical to others. > > <snip crap> > > Once again, how do you know how Galois Theory is taught if you've not had a > formal course in it? I can't argue on how it's taught because I know very > little about the subject. However, if you were to strike up an argument > about differential equations, for example, I feel I could hold my own as > that's my main area of interest. > > Dave I've been arguing over these areas with sci.math posters who have gone into detail about how my ideas contradict with how Galois Theory is used. Some of them are supposedly experts in the area, for instance, I think that it's actually Arturo Magidin's area of expertise, and that he has a Ph.D in the area from the University of California at Berkeley. James Harris ............................................. David Moran wrote: > <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message > news:1139112273.914242.164390@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > David Moran wrote: > >> <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message > >> news:1139086835.818988.158310@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > >> > Now I'm going to go over the Decker example and how it refutes the > >> > standard teaching of Galois Theory, and it turns out that it shows the > >> > theory of ideals to be flawed as well, but it's more convoluted to > >> > explain why that's true and I'll leave that explanation as it is > >> > somewhat technical to others. > >> > >> <snip crap> > >> > >> Once again, how do you know how Galois Theory is taught if you've not had > >> a > >> formal course in it? I can't argue on how it's taught because I know very > >> little about the subject. However, if you were to strike up an argument > >> about differential equations, for example, I feel I could hold my own as > >> that's my main area of interest. > >> > >> Dave > > > > I've been arguing over these areas with sci.math posters who have gone > > into detail about how my ideas contradict with how Galois Theory is > > used. > > > > Some of them are supposedly experts in the area, for instance, I think > > that it's actually Arturo Magidin's area of expertise, and that he has > > a Ph.D in the area from the University of California at Berkeley. > > > > > > James Harris > > > > But, do you know anything about it yourself? I don't think you can argue > about something you don't know about. > > Dave I don't claim expertise in Galois Theory, but I have checked to verify the basic claims of posters who have cited Galois Theory in disagreeing with me. The results I have give no room for doubt about the applicability of Galois Theory, which is not totally invalidated--just the conclusions about where factors go. The more damaging impact is on the theory of ideals, where I have even less expertise, but I think my central point invalidates the concept of a prime ideal, showing it has no mathematical basis. James Harris ................................................. William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > Now I'm going to go over the Decker example and how it refutes the > > standard teaching of Galois Theory, and it turns out that it shows the > > theory of ideals to be flawed as well, but it's more convoluted to > > explain why that's true and I'll leave that explanation as it is > > somewhat technical to others. > > > > This example because of the use of simple quadratics takes away the > > objections of posters who have inexplicably refused to accept the > > distributive property in proofs I've shown with my own more complicated > > expressions. > > > > And also I'm starting with equations put up by a Rick Decker, so it's > > not like I picked them personally. > > > > The attempt will be to have everthing below in the ring of algebraic > > integers, so consider that the ring, but notice at a key point, we will > > be forced out of that ring. > > > > Consider > >
> > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > and > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > where Decker chose this example because at x=1, the middle term goes to > > 0 which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at > > x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of > > the expressions, but clearly it does not at x=1, but that special case > > doesn't change the refutation so I'll leave out the explanation of it > > >
> The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the > > relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. > > > > The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial > > that importantly becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > Note that this has integer coefficients and is reducible > over Q if a= -2. Note further that this has non-integer > coefficients if a is not a rational integer and in this case > the question of irreducibility does not arise. (Though if a is a > solution
> to a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 for x an algebraic integer, > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 has a algebraic integer root). > > > > > and using a = 7b, you get > > And here b is in general not an algebraic integer. > > > > > 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 > > > > and dividing off 7, gives you > >
> > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an > > algebraic integer x. > > True > . > >
> > Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > > you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > > algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > > irreducible over Q. > > > > > True, however, as noted above, if a is a solution to > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0, and is not a rational integer, > the polynomial x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 does not have > integer coefficients, but does have at least one algebraic integer > root. (Remember, algebraic integers can be roots of other > polynomials than monic polynomials with integer coefficients). > > > BUT > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > means that for ANY algebraic integer x, 'a' is an algebraic integer, > > but if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > will not allow an algebraic integer x, if 'a' is an integer and the > > quadratic is irreducible over Q. > > > > True, but no-one has claimed the opposite. And clearly you > cannot get such an 'a' by solving a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > where x is an algebraic integer. >
> > So you are forced out of the ring of algebraic integers. > > > > Algebraically you still have > > > > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > but the 'b' is outside of the ring of algebraic integers for certain > > algebraic integer values of x. > > > > Let x_1 be an algebraic integer > > Let > > a^2 - (x_1 - 1)a + 7(x_1^2 + x_1) = 0 > > Then > > 7x_1^2 + (7-a)x_1 + a^2 + a = 0 > > so x_1 is a root of > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > Now let gcd(7,a) = r, 7=rs, a=rt, gcd(s,t) =1, s non unit > > We get x_1 is a root of > > sx^2 + (s-t)x + rt^2 + t = 0 > > So sx^2 + (s-t)x + rt^2 + t = 0 has an algebraic integer root. > The fact that this polynomial is not monic is of no importance. > It doesn't have integer coefficients. > It's easier and more direct to simply solve for x in terms of the a's: x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 Here you can just see by inspection that if 'a' has 7 as a factor, then 7 divides through the numerator and the denominator. BUT, if 'a' only shares some non-unit factors with 7 while being coprime to others, those factors will divide off, leaving the others in the denominator. That 14 in the denominator is key here. So x cannot in that case be an algebraic integer, as you need a difference in divisibility by sign, which proves that it's impossible for x to be an algebraic integer, if there are shared factors. Note that the only exception is when sqrt(7) is the factor of both the a's which occurs when x= 1 mod 7. James Harris .................................................... William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > William Hughes wrote: > > > jstevh@ms n.com wrote:
> > > > Now I'm going to go over the Decker example and how it refutes the > > > > standard teaching of Galois Theory, and it turns out that it shows the > > > > theory of ideals to be flawed as well, but it's more convoluted to > > > > explain why that's true and I'll leave that explanation as it is > > > > somewhat technical to others. > > > > > > > > This example because of the use of simple quadratics takes away the > > > > objections of posters who have inexplicably refused to accept the > > > > distributive property in proofs I've shown with my own more complicated > > > > expressions. > > > >
> > > > And also I'm starting with equations put up by a Rick Decker, so it's > > > > not like I picked them personally. > > > > > > > > The attempt will be to have everthing below in the ring of algebraic > > > > integers, so consider that the ring, but notice at a key point, we will > > > > be forced out of that ring. > > > > > > > > Consider > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) > > > > = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) > > > > >
> > > and > > > > > > > > 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) > > > > > > > > where the a's are defined by > > > > > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > > > where Decker chose this example because at x=1, the middle term goes to > > > > 0 which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at > > > > x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of > > > > the expressions, but clearly it does not at x=1, but that special case > > > > doesn't change the refutation so I'll leave out the explanation of it > > > > > > > > The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the > > > > relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. > > > > > > > > The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic > > > > > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > >
> > > > > and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial > > > > that importantly becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor:
> > > > > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > > > > > > Note that this has integer coefficients and is reducible > > > over Q if a= -2. Note further that this has non-integer > > > coefficients if a is not a rational integer and in this case > > > the question of irreducibility does not arise. (Though if a is a > > > solution > > > to a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 for x an algebraic integer, > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 has a algebraic integer root). > > > > > > > > > > > and using a = 7b, you get > >
> > > > And here b is in general not an algebraic integer. > > > > > > > > > > > 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 > > > > > > > > and dividing off 7, gives you > > > > > > > > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > > > > > so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an > > > > algebraic integer x. > > > > > > True > > > . > > > > > > > > Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > > > > you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > > > > algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > > > > irreducible over Q. > > > > > > > > > > > > > True, however, as noted above, if a is a solution to > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0, and is not a rational integer, > > > the polynomial x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 does not have > > > integer coefficients, but does have at least one algebraic integer > > > root. (Remember, algebraic integers can be roots of other > >
> polynomials than monic polynomials with integer coefficients). > > > > > > > BUT > > > > > > > > a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > > > > > > means that for ANY algebraic integer x, 'a' is an algebraic integer, > > > > but if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor > > > > > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > > > > > will not allow an algebraic integer x, if 'a' is an integer and the > > > > quadratic is irreducible over Q. > > > > > > > > > > True, but no-one has claimed the opposite. And clearly you > > > cannot get such an 'a' by solving a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 > > > where x is an algebraic integer. > > > > > > > So you are forced out of the ring of algebraic integers. > > > > > > > > Algebraically you still have > > > > > >
> > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > > > > > but the 'b' is outside of the ring of algebraic integers for certain > > > > algebraic integer values of x. > > > > > > > > > > Let x_1 be an algebraic integer > > > > > > Let >
> > > > > a^2 - (x_1 - 1)a + 7(x_1^2 + x_1) = 0 > > > > > > Then > > > > > > 7x_1^2 + (7-a)x_1 + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > > > so x_1 is a root of > > > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > > > Now let gcd(7,a) = r, 7=rs, a=rt, gcd(s,t) =1, s non unit > > > > > > We get x_1 is a root of > > > > > > sx^2 + (s-t)x + rt^2 + t = 0 > > > > > > So sx^2 + (s-t)x + rt^2 + t = 0 has an algebraic integer root. > > > The fact that this polynomial is not monic is of no importance. > > > It doesn't have integer coefficients. > > > > > > > It's easier and more direct to simply solve for x in terms of the a's: > > >
> x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 > > > > Here you can just see by inspection that if 'a' has 7 as a factor, then > > 7 divides through the numerator and the denominator. > > > > BUT, if 'a' only shares some non-unit factors with 7 while being > > coprime to others, those factors will divide off, leaving the others in > > the denominator. > > > > So what. If t divides u and t divides v then t divides (u+v). > However it is possible to have t does not divide u and t does > not divide v but t does divide (u+v). Yup. > > E.g 2 divides (1+ sqrt(5)) in the ring of algebraic integers, even
> though 2 does not divide 1 and 2 does not divide sqrt(5). > So ((1+sqrt(5))/2) and ((1-sqrt(5))/2) are both algebraic integers. >
> -William Hughes Right. They BOTH have to have it as a factor. What x = ((a-7) +/- sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 shows is that if 'a' has some factors in common with 7, while not having 7 as a factor, then x cannot be an algebraic integer as those factors cannot divide out for both solutions. What you need here is, say, for x = ((a-7) + sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 to have those factors divide out, while x = ((a-7) - sqrt(-27a^2 - 42a + 49))/14 would not be an algebraic integer because they don't, but how would you pick? That's why it's important that 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 remains non-monic if 'a' doesn't have 7 as a factor. James Harris ..................................................... Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com writes: > > > So Galois Theory as a way to determine where factors go is refuted, and > > it is proven that the ring of algebraic integers is incomplete[...] > > James, I know you're a busy guy and all, but I am still waiting for a > definition of "complete" here. What does it mean when you say that > the ring of algebraic integers is not complete? Which of Dedekind's > theorems is thereby refuted? And how does this contradict Galois > theory? > > Some of us are a bit slow here and could use even simpler > explanations. > Galois Theory has been used to make claims about factors and how they distribute. When it comes down to particulars though claims relevant to this discussion generally are based on whether or not a factor is a factor in the ring of algebraic integers. With the Decker example you can see how 7 as a factor of one of the a's works for quite a few cases, except when x = 1 mod 7 (I've been saying when x=1 but that's the correct requirement) and when the equation defining the a's is irreducible over Q, as then neither of the a's can have 7 as a factor in the ring of algebraic integers. Completeness or lack of it is best shown with an example, where my favorite is to give 2 and 6 considering evens a ring, and note that 2 is coprime to 6 IN THAT RING because 3 is not even. Similarly, numbers are excluded from the ring of algebraic integers because they are not roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients, which can lead to apparent contradictions, where you can appear to prove two different and contradictory things. Back to my 2 and 6 example, it's like being able to prove that 2 is not coprime to 6, but then someone coming back at you that it IS coprime to 6, in the ring of evens. You have a contradiction unless you understand that 3 is excluded so you are both right. I can prove 7 as a factor in a way I call algebraically which is equivalent to being in the ring of objects, which I defined. Dedekind claimed to have a proof depending on the theory of ideals which would it turns out prove that the ring of algebraic integers is complete, and cannot have the problem I outline, like with evens where 2 and 6 are coprime. Here completenes means that you couldn't algebraically contradict with a coprimeness result in the ring of algebraic integers if it were complete. So that coprimeness in that ring means coprimeness in general, versus like with evens, coprimeness in the ring, merely meaning you may have an element that is not in the ring, like 3 is not even so 2 is coprime to 6. The Dedekind proof claim that I've seen cited on this newsgroup by William Hughes, says that he relies on the theory of ideals. So, if that is true, the theory of ideals has been shown to be invalid. All of that from a simple quadratic example. James Harris .............................................. Few of you may have noticed a posting by a Rick Decker--a professor last time I checked, at Hamilton College--meant to refute my ideas where he put up a simple quadratic example. But instead his example allows me to explain with a simple quadratic versus those complicated expressions I've been using, and directly show Galois Theory failing. I want you all to consider that no matter how much you might believe in a particular mathematical idea it has no real value if it does not work. It might seem strange to face a situation where a lot of people believed in some idea that turned out not to work, but history shows it has happened many times before. I just posted a reply in another thread where I gave the simple refutation of Galois Theory more directly. But I first talked through a key part of that refutation, yesterday. So then, why do I have to personally push the information with something so huge? Maybe no one noticed? But what if they did? What if they know it's right, and have decided to just sit quietly on the information? That's an important point, as my fear is that some of you may not realize that there are actually people who finding out I am right, would work to keep the false ideas popular, and in use, and to do so they have to ignore what can be easily shown. Decker himself is duty bound to not only acknowledge the clear information given by his own example, but as he said he would, work now to make it public knowledge that Galois Theory has been shown to not work and be a vocal supporter of my research versus a critic. The refutation is now simpler, leaving fewer areas for denial for posters trying to argue with me, but history shows that people can fight quite vigorously to protect their self image when they have been shown to be wrong. But I want you to consider carefully that you are better off knowing that truth, and that mathematics is a lot more useful, fun and important, when it actually works versus just being something that a lot of people think works. James Harris .............................................. Marty wrote: > <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message > news:1139077253.429594.287810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > Few of you may have noticed a posting by a Rick Decker--a professor > > last time I checked, at Hamilton College--meant to refute my ideas > > where he put up a simple quadratic example. > > > > But instead his example allows me to explain with a simple quadratic > > versus those complicated expressions I've been using, and directly show > > Galois Theory failing. > > You are quite WRONG, but you already know that. > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FundamentalTheoremofGaloisTheory.html > http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~dac/galois.html > http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/gata/ > http://www.davidson.edu/academic/math/swallow/ExpGalThWeb/ Citations don't change algebra. The key point about Decker's example is that it relies on very basic quadratic expressions, and I think it telling that you make an appeal to authority to try and counter algebra. People make mistakes. Mathematicians will not be the first group of people to hold on to wrong ideas for over a hundred years. But a mathematical proof is perfect. Forget the people, focus on the math. James Harris ............................................... David Moran wrote: > > But a mathematical proof is perfect. > > Not always. The logic could be flawed, leading to an incorrect conclusion. > > Dave Then it's not a proof. For some reason the word "proof" has been abused in math society to also mean claim of proof, when that's just not useful. A mathematical proof is a perfect argument. Claims of proof can be called that, just like in other areas, for instance, if a prosecutor claims proof that you committed a crime, but it turns out that prosecutor does not have proof, then it's not failed proof! It's lack of proof. That is, there never was actually proof. It's not like there was proof that turned out to not be proof. See what I mean? An actual mathematical proof is a perfect argument, without any error. Someone can claim proof, but if their argument is shown to be flawed, then it's not proof. James Harris ............................................. William Hughes wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > So yeah, you can take the expression > > > > a^3 + 3(-1+xf^2)a^2 - f^2(x^3 f^4 - 3x^2 f^2 + 3x) = 0 >
> > > and instead of focusing on the a's multiply it out and focus on x like > > you normally do anyway to get a polynomial P(x). > > > > It will be non-monic where the leading coefficient is f^2. > > > > Actually -f^6 (or f^6 if you multiply through by -1) > Right. I was miistaken. > > But, it will also be clear that if 'a' has f as a factor, the f^2 will > > divide off, > > The leading coefficient of P(x) is f^6 > The constant term of P(x) is 3a^2-a^3 > > Even if 'a' has f as a factor the leading coefficient will not divide > off and we will not be left with a monic polynomial. > > > giving you a monic polynomial, and thus, an algebraic > > integer value for x. > > > > No. But in any case while a monic polynomial would insure an > algebraic integer x, it is not true that an algebraic integer x cannot > satisfy a non-monic polynomial. You have made this error > before. >
> -William Hughes Here's a better example where the initial expressions were given by a Rick Decker, interestingly enough, as part of an attempt to refute my mathematical ideas. Instead he's given me to tools to explain them simply. The following works by focusing on simple quadratics given by that poster where I can directly consider what happens with one of them having 7 as a factor, and show that except for a special case that possibility is required while the predictions of Galois Theory are impossible. With 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 where Decker chose this example because at x=1, the middle term goes to 0 which he I guess thought was a counterexample to my ideas because at x=0, the a's are 0 and 1, indicating that 7 divides through only one of the expressions. That can be explained but more importantly, so I'll leave it for now, the Decker example can be used to simply refute Galois Theory, and the theory of ideals. The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 and using a = 7b, you get 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 and dividing off 7, gives you x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an algebraic integer x. Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is irreducible over Q. BUT a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 means that for ANY algebraic integer x, 'a' is an algebraic integer, but if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 will not allow an algebraic integer x, if 'a' is an integer and the quadratic is irreducible over Q. To save Galois Theory and the theory of ideals, the attempted defense of those ideas at this point would require that for some non-rational 'a' with partial factors of 7, as it is a root of a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 with an integer x other than x=1, you would get a polynomial with an integer solution for x from 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 which would remain non-monic because the factors of 7 not in common with 'a' would remain on the leading coefficient. But that also means that you would have to have solutions for x that would work for that 'a' which are themselves not algebraic integers because the polynomial is non-monic. However, assume that x is an integer, so with a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 7(x^2 + x) = 7M where M is some integer, and you get two solutions for x, consistent with there being two values of x for any given 'a' that will work, but that quadratic is monic! And it cannot be non-monic for any solutions where x is an integer, removing the possibility needed for Galois Theory and the theory of ideals as that means that 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 cannot map an algebraic integer solution for the a's to a non-algebraic integer solution for x, which takes away the possibility of 'a' having a partial factor of 7. I think what I have is wordy, but for the mathematically sophisticated the short answer is that you can take 7 Q(x) = 7((x^2 + x)(5^2) + (-1 + x)(5) + 7) = 7(25 x^2 + 30 x + 2) and 7 Q(x) = (5a_1(x) + 7)(5a_2(x) + 7) where the a's are defined by a^2 - (x - 1)a + 7(x^2 + x) = 0 and focus on that last to show that 'a' must have 7 as a factor or be coprime to 7 except for the special case at x=1. James Harris ................................................. José Carlos Santos wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > > The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the > > relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. > > > > The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and > > write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that > > becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: > > It has 7 as a factor *in which ring*? I suppose that you're working with > the ring of algebraic integers. Am I right? > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > and using a = 7b, you get > > > > 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 > > > > and dividing off 7, gives you > > > > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an > > algebraic integer x. > > True, _x_ must be an algebraic integer. Not obvious, but true. > Yes. So that is the one route to always getting algebraic integers, which is to have algebraic integer b, with a=7b, as that will also give you an algebraic integer x, no matter what. > > Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > > you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > > algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > > irreducible over Q. >
> Indeed. But then you're saying that _b_ is a factor of _a_ in the ring > of algebraic integers *and* that _b_ does not belong to that ring. Don't > you see a contradiction here? > Ah, but that's not the conclusion that follows mathematically! Mathematically the proper conclusion is that 7 is in general a factor of one of the a's, except at the special case at x=1, but b is not always an algebraic integer given algebraic integer x. So with x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 you still get the monic polynomial, but--and this is the crucial point--b cannot be an algebraic integer for those cases where neither of the a's can have 7 as a factor in the ring of algebraic integers. So you can see the problem with incompleteness of the ring of algebraic integers. The 7 factor is algebraically there, but because of a technicality, it is not a factor in the ring of algebraic integers, which is something best explained I think by considering 2 and 6 in the ring of evens, as because 3 is not even, 2 is not a factor of 6, in that ring. And I want to emphasize again that there is no reason to fight for mathematical ideas that DO NOT WORK, so the best thing here is to work through the explanations so that everyone can understand them readily, and get to the hard process of ending the current teaching of Galois Theory and the theory of ideals. That teaching will be replaced with correct and extremely powerful mathematical ideas. James Harris .............................................. José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > >>> The following disproof focuses directly on Galois Theory while the > >>> relation to the theory of ideals is more complex. > >>> > >>> The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and > >>> write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that > >>> becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: > >> It has 7 as a factor *in which ring*? I suppose that you're working with > >> the ring of algebraic integers. Am I right? > > You did not answer this question! > I didn't notice it before. The answer is, the ring of algebraic integers. > >>> 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > >>> > >>> and using a = 7b, you get > >>> > >>> 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0 > >>> > >>> and dividing off 7, gives you > >>> > >>> x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > >>> >
>>> so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an > >>> algebraic integer x. > >> True, _x_ must be an algebraic integer. Not obvious, but true. > >> > > > > Yes. So that is the one route to always getting algebraic integers, > > which is to have algebraic integer b, with a=7b, as that will also give > > you an algebraic integer x, no matter what.
> > That's an important point I made showing an infinite number of solutions following the theory I have, which is that 7 is a factor of only one of the a's in general, except for the special case at x=1. The reason you're pushed out of the ring of algebraic integers when x is an integer is because of the rule that algebraic integers are roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. That arbitrary rule is like the rule that evens have 2 as a factor, in the ring of integers, so that if you go to the ring of evens, the rule means that 2 is NOT a factor of 6 because 3 is not in the ring. Rules can create special situations, which the algebra just ignores, so, for instance, algebraically 2 is a factor of 6. Some of you may have noticed I talk about "algebraically" having a factor a lot, and that may not seem like a rigorous idea, but it can be shown to being equivalent to being in a ring that I call the ring of objects. > >>> Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > >>> you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > >>> algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > >>> irreducible over Q. > >> Indeed. But then you're saying that _b_ is a factor of _a_ in the ring > >> of algebraic integers *and* that _b_ does not belong to that ring. Don't > >> you see a contradiction here? > >> > > > > Ah, but that's not the conclusion that follows mathematically! > > No? Exactly where is my mistake? > I show, and it's trivial to see that it's true, that given an algebraic integer b, with a = 7b you are guaranteed to have an algebraic integer x. BUT with 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor, then you are forced into having a non-monic polynomial. At least one solution of that polynomial MUST be out of the ring of algebraic integers. Therefore, it follows logically that if you use a = 7b, and have x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 that b cannot be in the ring of algebraic integers for those cases where 'a' does not have 7 as a factor in the ring of algebraic integers. So you're pushed out of that ring. > > Mathematically the proper conclusion is that 7 is in general a factor > > of one of the a's, except at the special case at x=1, but b is not > > always an algebraic integer given algebraic integer x.
> > Where did you get the idea that "7 is in general a factor of one of the > a's, except at the special case at x=1"? Take x = 2, for instance. Then > a = 1/2 +/- i*sqrt(167)/2. The minimal polynomial of a/7 is then > 7z^2 - z + 6. Therefore, a/7 is *not* an algebraic integer and so 7 is > not a factor of any of the two a's in the ring of algebraic integers. > > Best regards, >
> Jose Carlos Santos It is true that for those values that 7 is NOT a factor of either of the a's in the ring of algebraic integers, but algebraically it can be shown that 7 is in general a factor of one of the a's except for the special case at x=1. That may sound contradictory, but again the example with 2 and 6 in the ring of evens shows exactly how it can happen if some numbers are excluded by a special rule. With the evens 2 and 6 are coprime in the ring of evens because 3 is not even. With algebraic integers numbers are excluded because they are not roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. James Harris .................................... José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > >>>>> The first step in the disproof is to focus on that last quadratic and > >>>>> write it with the focus on x, which gives a non-monic polynomial that > >>>>> becomes monic if 'a' has 7 as a factor: > >>>> It has 7 as a factor *in which ring*? I suppose that you're working with > >>>> the ring of algebraic integers. Am I right? > >> You did not answer this question! > >> > > > > I didn't notice it before. The answer is, the ring of algebraic > > integers. > > OK. Thanks for making that clear. > > >>>>> 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > >>>>> > >>>>> and using a = 7b, you get > >>>>> > >>>>> 7x^2 + (7 - 7b)x + 49b^2 + 7b = 0
> >>>>> > >>>>> and dividing off 7, gives you > >>>>> > >>>>> x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > >>>>> > >>>>> so for ANY algebraic integer 'a' that has 7 as a factor, you get an > >>>>> algebraic integer x. > >>>> True, _x_ must be an algebraic integer. Not obvious, but true. > >>>> > >>> Yes. So that is the one route to always getting algebraic integers, > >>> which is to have algebraic integer b, with a=7b, as that will also give > >>> you an algebraic integer x, no matter what. > >>> > > > > That's an important point I made showing an infinite number of > > solutions following the theory I have, which is that 7 is a factor of > > only one of the a's in general, except for the special case at x=1. > > > > The reason you're pushed out of the ring of algebraic integers when x > > is an integer is because of the rule that algebraic integers are roots > > of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. > > That's not a rule. That's what the expression "algebraic integer" means. > Calling it a "rule" is as silly as saying that there's a rule that says > that any rational number must be the quotient of two integers. > Not exactly. The rule for evens is that 2 is a factor of any number that is even. Now that is also the definition of evens. But it doesn't change it from being a rule that for evens 2 is a factor. Your example that any rational number must be the quotient of two integers is more like just a definition in that it doesn't quite make sense as a rule. In contrast, the rule is that to be an algebraic integer a number must be a root of a monic polynomial with integer coefficients, which importantly DOES NOT FOLLOW from simply defining algebraic integers to be roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. It has to be proven, and the proof is easy enough. But the definition of algebraic integers does not directly give the rule, as the rule has to be proven as resulting from that definition. >
> That arbitrary rule is like the rule that evens have 2 as a factor, in > > the ring of integers, so that if you go to the ring of evens, the rule > > means that 2 is NOT a factor of 6 because 3 is not in the ring. > > The term "even" is defined in the ring of integers. Have you ever seen > it defined for the ring of even numbers? Where? > The example is to show how an exclusionary rule can cause apparent contradictions. So 2 is coprime to 6 in a ring made up only of evens because 3 is excluded from that ring because it's not even. Similarly the exclusionary rule that numbers must be roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients excludes numbers from the ring of algebraic integers giving the possibility of apparent contradictions, as I've repeatedly shown. So I prove that 7 is a factor and then one of you comes back and claims that it's not a factor, but your claim is in the ring of algebraic integers. Similarly I could prove that 2 is a factor of 6, and someone in the ring of evens could truthfully proclaim that false, as 2 is coprime to 6 in THAT ring. Round and round you can go with such discussions where one person can prove a factor, while others in a ring with a special rule can proclaim that is not a factor. > > Rules can create special situations, which the algebra just ignores, > > so, for instance, algebraically 2 is a factor of 6. > > > > Some of you may have noticed I talk about "algebraically" having a > > factor a lot, and that may not seem like a rigorous idea, but it can be > > shown to being equivalent to being in a ring that I call the ring of > > objects. > > Which is...? > I'm not going into the ring of objects now as that is a side discussion. For the purposes of this discussion consider the possibility that there is a ring that does not have the problem of the ring of algebraic integers in that you cannot appear to prove a contradiction i.e. that a number does and does not have a given factor. The key here is that I can algebraically prove a factor, and find that in the ring of algebraic integers that number is not a factor, just like you can prove 2 is a factor of 6, while someone else can claim you are wrong by relying on the ring of evens. > >>>>> Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > >>>>> you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > >>>>> algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > >>>>> irreducible over Q. > >>>> Indeed. But then you're saying that _b_ is a factor of _a_ in the ring > >>>> of algebraic integers *and* that _b_ does not belong to that ring. Don't > >>>> you see a contradiction here? > >>>> >
>>> Ah, but that's not the conclusion that follows mathematically! > >> No? Exactly where is my mistake? > >> > > > > I show, and it's trivial to see that it's true, that given an algebraic > > integer b, with > > > > a = 7b >
> > > you are guaranteed to have an algebraic integer x. > > > > BUT with > > > > 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > > > > if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor, then you are forced into having a > > non-monic polynomial. > > > > At least one solution of that polynomial MUST be out of the ring of > > algebraic integers. > > Really? Which root of the polynomial 2x - 2 does not belong to the ring > of algebraic integers? > The polynomial is non-monic, so you know that at least one of its solutions is outside of the ring of algebraic integers, if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor. That's basic. For example, with 2x^2 + 3x + 1 = (2x + 1)(x + 1) notice that one root of x is -1/2 which is not an algebraic integer. > > Therefore, it follows logically that if you use a = 7b, and have > > > > x^2 + (1 - b)x + 7b^2 + b = 0 > > > > that b cannot be in the ring of algebraic integers for those cases > > where 'a' does not have 7 as a factor in the ring of algebraic > > integers. > > > > So you're pushed out of that ring. > > What makes you believe that a root of a non-monic polynomial whose > coefficients are algebraic integers cannot be an algebraic integer? > See my counter-example above. > This is getting tedious. I didn't say that it couldn't be an algebraic integer. I noted that ONE of them couldn't be, and you can see my example. James Harris ........................................................... José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > >> That's not a rule. That's what the expression "algebraic integer" means. > >> Calling it a "rule" is as silly as saying that there's a rule that says > >> that any rational number must be the quotient of two integers. > > > > Not exactly. The rule for evens is that 2 is a factor of any number > > that is even. > > Actually, that's the definition, not a rule. > It's a definition and a rule. > > Now that is also the definition of evens. But it doesn't change it > > from being a rule that for evens 2 is a factor. > > > > Your example that any rational number must be the quotient of two > > integers is more like just a definition in that it doesn't quite make > > sense as a rule. > > Exactly what happens with the concept of "algebraic integer"! > > > In contrast, the rule is that to be an algebraic integer a number must > > be a root of a monic polynomial with integer coefficients, which > > importantly DOES NOT FOLLOW from simply defining algebraic integers to > > be roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. > > Fantastic! You wrote that if one defines "algebraic integers" to be > roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients, it DOES NOT FOLLOW > that an algebraic integer must be a root of a monic polynomial with > integer coefficients. I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it > myself. :-) > It takes a proof that any algebraic integer must be the root of some monic polynomial with integer coefficients. The rule then is at that point set, by the proof, but not by definition. That is, the definition of algebraic integers can be shown to lead to the rule. > > It has to be proven, and the proof is easy enough. > > Are you familiar with the concept of "tautology"? > Yup. I can see that you're kind of clueless here, which will be revealed by your next comments. But how could you get lost on such simple points? > > The example is to show how an exclusionary rule can cause apparent > > contradictions. > > They are "apparent" for you alone. > I doubt it. > > So 2 is coprime to 6 in a ring made up only of evens because 3 is > > excluded from that ring because it's not even. > > Define "coprime" in the ring of even numbers. > Not sharing factors within the ring. That is, 2 and 6 do not share a factor in the ring of evens. Understand? > >>>>>>> Also, notice that 7b^2 in the expression so that if you focus on 'b' > >>>>>>> you have a non-monic polynomial and as before, 'b' cannot be an > >>>>>>> algebraic integer if that polynomial has integer coefficients and is > >>>>>>> irreducible over Q. > >>>>>> Indeed. But then you're saying that _b_ is a factor of _a_ in the ring > >>>>>> of algebraic integers *and* that _b_ does not belong to that ring. Don't >
>>>>>> you see a contradiction here? > >>>>>> > >>>>> Ah, but that's not the conclusion that follows mathematically! > >>>> No? Exactly where is my mistake? > >>>> > >>> I show, and it's trivial to see that it's true, that given an algebraic > >>> integer b, with > >>> > >>> a = 7b > >>> > >>> you are guaranteed to have an algebraic integer x. > >>> > >>> BUT with > >>> >
>>> 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 > >>> > >>> if 'a' does not have 7 as a factor, then you are forced into having a > >>> non-monic polynomial. > >>>
> >>> At least one solution of that polynomial MUST be out of the ring of > >>> algebraic integers. > >> Really? Which root of the polynomial 2x - 2 does not belong to the ring > >> of algebraic integers? > >> > > > > The polynomial is non-monic, so you know that at least one of its > > solutions is outside of the ring of algebraic integers, if 'a' does not > > have 7 as a factor. > > The polynomial 2x - 2 is non-monic. Can you please tell me which of its > roots is not an algebraic integer? You have a factor of 2, which isn't applicable to the polynomial I was talking about. Your comment is like I should explain every tiny little detail as if you can't look at 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 and see that it does NOT have 2 as a factor. > > That's basic. > > > > For example, with > > > > 2x^2 + 3x + 1 = (2x + 1)(x + 1) > > > > notice that one root of x is -1/2 which is not an algebraic integer. > > Again, can you please tell me which of the roots of the polynomial > 2x - 2 is not an algebraic integer? > > > This is getting tedious. > > I agree! > You're being deliberately obtuse. > > I didn't say that it couldn't be an algebraic integer. I noted that > > ONE of them couldn't be, and you can see my example. > > Which of the roots of the polynomial 2x - 2 cannot be algebraic integer? > > Best regards, > > Jose Carlos Santos Your behavior is clearly meant to be simply aggravating as there is no way you can sensibly think that 2x - 2 is applicable when the expression in question is 7x^2 + (7-a)x + a^2 + a = 0 where there is no constant factor visible. That kind of behavior isn't clever, so it's hard to imagine what you think you gain. I guess you just want to be aggravating. So childish. James Harris ...................................................... José Carlos Santos wrote: > jstevh@msn.com wrote: > > >>> Now that is also the definition of evens. But it doesn't change it > >>> from being a rule that for evens 2 is a factor. > >>> > >>> Your example that any rational number must be the quotient of two > >>> integers is more like just a definition in that it doesn't quite make > >>> sense as a rule. > >> Exactly what happens with the concept of "algebraic integer"! > >> > >>> In contrast, the rule is that to be an algebraic integer a number must > >>> be a root of a monic polynomial with integer coefficients, which > >>> importantly DOES NOT FOLLOW from simply defining algebraic integers to > >>> be roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients. > >> Fantastic! You wrote that if one defines "algebraic integers" to be > >> roots of monic polynomials with integer coefficients, it DOES NOT FOLLOW > >> that an algebraic integer must be a root of a monic polynomial with > >> integer coefficients. I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it > >> myself. :-) > >> > > > > It takes a proof that any algebraic integer must be the root of some > > monic polynomial with integer coefficients. > > Even if "algebraic integer" means "root of some monic polynomial with > integer coefficients? > Yup. I'll take an example from your playbook, and define Santos numbers as roots of non monic polynomials, so 2x + 2 = 0 is, by that definition, a Santos number. But x=1 is also the root of polynomials that are NOT monic, so the definition doesn't create the rule that a Santos number must be the root of only non monic polynomials. You're way past tiresome, as you just keep arguing about dumb stuff. The "pure math" that comes from the ideas I've shot down has been impractical, with mathematicians saying maybe, someday it might be useful, but I say, it has never been practical, because it's wrong (with some questions now in my mind about the use of group theory in physics). Yet, I give proof, and you people fight the proof. I get proof published and you fight publication. I come back with examples showing integers behaving as predicted by my research, and you try to ignore that, so I use an example one of you came up with, to finally crush any semblance of a mathematical objection, and you still fight the mathematical truth. What DO you believe in? James Harris ...............................................
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