Prof Kperogi,
With due apologies Sir, "Unadulterated nonsense" is pretty strong stuff even by Satan's blasphemous & iconoclastic poetic standards. I've heard much worse. But by modern, everyday standards, post- Alexander Pope's , short of calling another Hon. Member " a liar" something as innocuous as "unadulterated nonsense" is accepted standard fare and an essential part of normal verbal praxis in the British House of Commons ( the origin of the language species)
I may be wrong, but in my humble opinion whether lacking in public decorum or not, the point that Bayo Amos makes may be a little pedantic , may even bruise another's well cultivated sensitivity or vanity, but it is still valid, irrefutable…
All of the above is said in good faith and I do not expect some more over-reaction.
Yours sincerely,
Cornelius
On Monday, 23 November 2015 03:37:28 UTC+1, Farooq A. Kperogi wrote:
"The highlighted part of the above is a pure, unadulterated nonsense."Bayo,Why do you have to be obnoxious and gratuitously vituperative just because you have a different take on an issue? I have a riposte to the ignorance you spewed here, but I have no time for the crude, unproductive, dewy-eyed sophomoric exuberance that has become the signature of your discursive engagements on this list.Be well.FarooqFarooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.Journalism & Emerging Media
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"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. WillOn Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Bayo Amos <aae...@gmail.com> wrote:"In fact, a spokesperson for the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI), which offers a $1 million reward for anyone who can solve the Reimann Hypothesis, told CNN that any claim to have proved the hypothesis "would need to be published in a journal 'of worldwide repute' and accepted for two years within the mathematics community before it would be considered.""But, most importantly, Opeyemi actually stands no chance of even being able to prove the hypothesis because none of the journals published by the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science is of "worldwide repute.""The highlighted part of the above is a pure, unadulterated nonsense. It's either you have the proof or not. The proof can be published anywhere including on a personal website. As long as no one can fault the proof and it can be logically explained to have solved the problem, it remains just that, the proof. Mathematics is not a democracy or an electoral politics where majority carries the vote. To prove or disprove a scientific theory or a mathematical theorem requires just one person. Regardless of where it is published, if no one comes forth with a convincing and logically sound refutation, the proof is validated. To that extent, I don't have problem with Enoch's presentation at Vienna or where he decides to publish his works. After all, Science and Nature rejected several ground breaking works only for such to win Nobel Prize. So much for peer review! It's not where but what is published. Does one even have to be a professional mathematician to prove the hypothesis?My problem with Enoch was not even that he 'published' what turned out to be a false solution. In science, a publication is regarded a standard as long as it can't be improved upon or refuted. Even today and despite several validations, Einstein's theory of relativity is still being tested, and who wouldn't want to be the physicist who proved Einstein wrong! Enoch was right to have come forth with a solution. It's left for any mathematician to refute or prove his solution a false solution. Even his false solution, can still be superior to all false solutions published and someone might have to build on his to ultimately solve the problem. To that extent, he has done nothing wrong.That brings me to the only problem I have with him, being lack of originality. What Enoch is holding for the world to see is a plagiarized version of a known false solution, almost word for word. I think that's criminal and he should be appropriately sanctioned for that. In fact, the only logical reason that makes us know, conclusively, that his solution is false is because it is a plagiarized one. Had it been original, someone somewhere would still be needed to disprove it or explain flaws in his solution.Thanks,Bayo.--On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:50 AM, kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:a 419 conference! wonder what their topics were
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On 11/21/15 8:06 AM, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series wrote:
Snippet from Farooq Kperogi's piece: "Now, Opeyemi's only evidence for claiming to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a paper on the puzzle at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria. Well, it has turned out that the conference itself may be a borderline scam operation. An August 20, 2011 blog post titled "Fake Paper Accepted by Nina Ringo's Vienna Conference" revealed that a scientist by the name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the genuineness of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) decided to test his suspicion by submitting a fake, worthless, nonsensical paper to the conference to see if it would be accepted or rejected. The researcher's hunch was accurate: the ICMC in Vienna appears to be an elaborate, money-making scholarly scam. His paper was accepted even though it was intentionally nonsensical. "The conference claims that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT they are not," the researcher wrote. "A fake paper was submitted for evaluation to interc...@gmail.com on Sun, Jan 2, 2011. The notification of acceptance was received on Sun, Jan 9, 2011." That's just one week of "peer review."
http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2015/11/mathematical-enoch- opeyemi-and-making.html?m=1 --
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