Kooks

[fanf]

I note that the prolifically incompetent "mathematician" Eugene Terrell has recently submitted a couple of new Inernet-Drafts on the topic of being able to fit more than 128 bits of numbers into 32 bits of space. Go to http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/index-t.html and look at draft-terrell-* ...

Comments

[simont]

I looked at this one and could believe he was just incomprehensible and/or incompetent (it was hard to really judge the latter owing to the former). But this one was just over the top; at the point where Fermat's Last Theorem was namechecked half way through the Introduction I decided he couldn't possibly be serious and had to be an excessively verbose troll.

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

Bah, I decided that anyone who couldn't get principle/principal right wasn't going to have produced anything worth reading later on. ;-)

[vatine]

Oh, it's even better... such as the '^' Carrot sign. Uh, yeah, be careful, so you don't use too many carets when cooking. (could, of course, be a spell-checker artefact)

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Both of those rely on a wilful and systematic misunderstanding of zero. The Fermat namechecking one is a particularly fine example of kookery; he quotes pages upon pages of sensible maths, then finally makes a flying leap to the very last table where he miscounts the number of rows and tries to claim that 2^0 is different from 0^0.

[simont]

*blinks* Well, they are different; 2⁰ is defined and 0⁰ isn't!

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

There's an absolutely classic Note: in the second one where he digresses onto chemistry and biology - it's completely barking.