quasi
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Re: Endorsement of Wolfgang Mueckenheim from a serious mathematician
Posted:
Jan 30, 2013 8:01 PM
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quasi wrote:
>david petry wrote:
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>>Doron Zeilberger wrote the following in an opinion piece on his >website:
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>>"Read Wolfgang Mueckenheim's fascinating book ! I especially
>>like the bottom of page 112 and the top of page 113, that prove,
>>once and for all, that (at least) the actual infinity is pure
>>nonsense."
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>Proves once and for all?
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>By that wording, Zeilberger appears to be affirming the validity
>of Mueckheim's claimed "proof" of some theorem or other which
>supposedly yields the conclusion that "infinity is pure nonsense".
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>>http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion68.html
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>Of course, in the same blog, a few months later, Zeilberger
>awkwardly tries to retract the claim of "proof", asserting
>that his earlier post was only intended as an offering of
>philosophical support.
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>However, in my opinion, that's a blatant copout.
>
>Worse, I regard Zeilberger's attempted "clarification" as
>deceitful, as evidenced by his posted statement:
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> "I have no expertise, or interest, in checking any possible
> technical claims that he [Muckemheim] may have made."
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>Insufficient expertise? A straight-out lie, in my opinion.
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>No interest? In a Nov 2005 blog post, Zeilberger mentions
>Muckenheimer's "fascinating course".
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>In a Dec 2008 blog post, Zeilberger alludes to results from
>pages 112 and 113 of Muckenheimer's book. As I see it, it's not
>believable that Zeilberger would quote results from pages 112
>and 113 without spending any time evaluating the first 111
>pages. Rather, it's just common sense to assume that Zeilberger
>actually did put some effort into evaluating Muckenheimer's book,
>the same book for which he later claimed to have neither
>expertise nor interest.
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>Had Zeilberger made a full retraction, he would have suffered
>some embarrassment, but at least it would have shown integrity.
>Instead, showing perhaps his true colors, he weaseled out.
Apologies for mangling the spelling Muckenheim's name. In fact,
not only did I misspell it, but I spelled it incorrectly in
3 different ways:
Mueckheim
Muckemheim
Muckenheimer
I did manage to spell Zeilberger's name correctly.
quasi
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