Re: Quadratic residues and factoring

Larry Hammick wrote:
> W. Dale Hall wrote:
> > It's both sad and entertaining to see you acting so
> > delusional. I suppose it's a good thing that you keep
> > this behavior so close to the line, because if it
> > became clear that this was an act it would just be
> > pathetic, yet if it became clear that is was genuine,
> > it would be even more pathetic.
>
> I once warned Harris that when a person goes to war against reality,
> reality invariably wins. Now Harris's recent stuff contains clues, or
> what look to me like clues, that he is deteriorating under the rain of
> blows from reality. Instead of denying for years on end that his proof
> of FLT is unsound, he now jumps daily from Goldbach to Twin Primes to
> RSA and so on. He makes psychotic threats, then comes back the next day
> to solicit the approval of the very people he threatened. And his math,
> if one can call it that, is even more trivial than it was in the FLT
> days.

It's called brainstorming.

>
> One other bit: He doesn't get mad when people say he is mentally
> disordered. I suspect therefore that he has a pscychiatric diagnosis
> which for some reason (probably money, such as a disability claim) he
> does not want to contradict.
>
> Larry Hammick
> Profiler Extraordinaire

It's a cheap shot to call someone mental.

But most people know it's a cheap shot and it shows what kind of people
you are.

I have a correct result--a product of the brainstorming you cite as
evidence of mental illness--and faced with mathematics you can't get
away with claiming wrong, you say I'm insane.

Right now there is a political battle along with the mathematical
discovery--that amazingly enough continues to take place--as I
emphasize that many of you replying to me are not nice people, so that
you lose that trust factor, where casual readers naively believe that
opposition to my research has sound foundations.

Sometimes in politics, it's better to let your opponent dig their own
grave, and jump in.

James Harris
Received on Mon May 1 02:06:08 2006