Headline:
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Headline:
"Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences.""
In the article:
"So, when we assume ∛7 'exists' in a formula, we’re assuming that this infinite, never-ending decimal is somehow a complete object. This is why, Prof. Wildberger says, he “doesn’t believe in irrational numbers.”
Too bad this nonsense is getting publicity when there's so much real math to explain.
Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences
A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve.
EurekAlert! (www.eurekalert.org)
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Headline:
"Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences.""
In the article:
"So, when we assume ∛7 'exists' in a formula, we’re assuming that this infinite, never-ending decimal is somehow a complete object. This is why, Prof. Wildberger says, he “doesn’t believe in irrational numbers.”
Too bad this nonsense is getting publicity when there's so much real math to explain.
Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences
A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve.
EurekAlert! (www.eurekalert.org)
@johncarlosbaez
Never underestimate a news writers ability to mangle science. With that said, the whole thing did read mighty suspicious, even as a mathematical amateur. -
@johncarlosbaez
Never underestimate a news writers ability to mangle science. With that said, the whole thing did read mighty suspicious, even as a mathematical amateur."His new method to solve polynomials also avoids radicals and irrational numbers, relying instead on special extensions of polynomials called ‘power series’, which can have an infinite number of terms with the powers of x."
So power series are a new way to solve polynomial equations??? Not new - hundreds of years old. They don't "avoid" irrational numbers, but they can be used to compute irrational numbers.
And so on....
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