Comments on: disproving math

By: Hafsteinn

Hafsteinn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:55:45 +0000

http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/fallacies.html

no further comments.

By: scwtte

scwtte — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:52:13 +0000

Watch the Axminster video:
http://cghm.org/wow/2009/damn-you-axminster

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:36:24 +0000

You think I haven’t devoted all my life to the PMM? What do you think all my comics are about? They’re actually schematics! Don’t give me lip about not believing in the PMM…

By: scwtte

scwtte — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:28:45 +0000

One can have an opinion about anything…even something as “irrefutable” as math.

This is purely theoretical crap anyway, and the theoretical will always be subjected to peoples’ opinions. And it’s thinking like yours that will keep the perpetual motion machine from ever being built.

By: scwtte

scwtte — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:28:27 +0000

Also, I was clearly exaggerating/being sarcastic when I said things like “this will change the world” or “disprove math,” or that I have any expertise at all. I don’t really care much about this post or its concepts anymore.

By: scwtte

scwtte — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:18:56 +0000

I appreciate your use of tact, avoiding personal attacks over something so controversial as an opinion on mathematics. And you wouldn’t believe my audacity, I assure you.

My whole point was that there are these (possibly) flawed “laws” which must be followed in order not to break math. You say, “after equation (2), anything added, multiplied, subtracted, divided on the LHS has to be applied to the RHS as well else you’re contradicting to the laws of equality.” Simply adding something that is equal to zero to one side of the equation and not adding it to the other side shouldn’t mess anything up – after all, it’s ZERO, NOTHING. 7=7, and 7+0=7 (you don’t need to write “7+0=7+0″).

But then it all goes back to the “dividing by zero” thing, which you must say is impossible (but I disagree). Max was right about that.

Thanks for stopping by.

By: fibonacci numbers

fibonacci numbers — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:05:53 +0000

YOUR maths severely flawed.

ax2 + bx + c = 0 —– (1)

substituting each variable, a b and c with integer,

x2 + 5x + 6 = 0 ——– (1)

because x2 + 5x + 6 = 0, we can safely add x2 + 5x + 6 on the RHS.

x2 + 5x + 6 = x2 + 5x + 6 ——–(2)

now i don’t understand what logic is that you claim, and i quote:
“we can freely add the equation to itself on either side as many times as we like, since we’re adding nothing”

after equation (2), anything added, multiplied,subtracted, divided on the LHS has to be applied to the RHS as well else you’re contradicting to the laws of equality.

If you can’t even understand the basics in algebra and yet has the audacity to put up a post like this, ptffff…… you’re no smarter than my famicom.

By: scwtte

scwtte — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:57:57 +0000

Truly, great insight. I only wish I still had the slightest academic need for math.

By: wee

wee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:23:05 +0000

Max!!!
Bringin’ in some closure!

Thanks a lot, man.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:37:44 +0000

It doesn’t work because while x/0=00 (00=infinity kinda brute infinity symbol) what you really need is lim(x) as x->0 which is undefined thus dividing by 0 is undefined. Also there are flaws in algebra in general and some errors in yours, which is why we use Calculus to really explain all this.