Conversation started Nov 15, 2018 at 12:08.
user21820
user21820
Nov 15, 2018 12:08
@amWhy @AndrésE.Caicedo @XanderHenderson @RushabhMehta @TheSimpliFire: This answer is simply wrong.
user131753
Nov 15, 2018 12:23
Instead of declaring the answer simply wrong, it would be better to say that the answer is missing details. Indeed, nowhere in the answer it was "assumed" that $f(x)=ax+b$. It was "proposed" that $f(x)=ax+b$. One can legitimately ask, how did the answerer get that (such a method is elaborated here). The point is the answer needs to be filled up with details but that doesn't make it "simply wrong", does it?
user131753
Nov 15, 2018 12:36
Sorry, forgot to ping you @user21820.
Did
Did
@user170039 Yeah, rather "mathematically nearly empty" than wrong. But why post it at all, nearly 8 years after proper answers were given?
user21820
user21820
@user170039 Instead of saying "instead of declaring ..., it would be better to say", it would be better to say that you think the comment is missing details". Mathematics is not about handwaving and armchair criticism of critics. And what you think has no impact on whether my declaration is wrong.
user131753
@Did I think you should ask the answerer regarding this.
user21820
user21820
@Did Technically yes, but you know how cranks and mathematically incompetent people are going to be severely misled by such answers that appear mathematical.
So, wrong pedagogically, and almost surely wrong reasoning going on in the poster's head.
user131753
@user21820 That's why I commented regarding that here and not under the answer.
user21820
user21820
Nov 15, 2018 12:43
I have a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. It's trivial. I propose that the exponent must be less than 4, because asymptotically the density of solutions drops off to zero as x or y tends to infinity. Therefore I only have to check solutions for exponents less than 4. For any "missing details", go and read Wiles' paper and don't bother me.
ArtOfCode
ArtOfCode
Nov 15, 2018 13:41
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Stop it, y'all. This is the second time mods have had to respond to this room today.
 
Conversation ended Nov 15, 2018 at 13:41.