Chance me? - Page 3

ayushkhaitan · 04-10-2009, 02:35 AM

C'mon guys. Would anyone please take the initiative to show my proof to a Caltech Maths professor if I mailed it to you???? Thanks.

dLo · 04-10-2009, 02:49 AM

Why don't you just mail it to professors yourself?

ayushkhaitan · 04-10-2009, 03:02 AM

Thanks for the reply dLo. Is there somewhere I could get their email ids? I tried checking on the caltech website, but without much luck.

LHC · 04-10-2009, 03:38 AM

Caltech math professors

have fun!

ayushkhaitan · 04-10-2009, 06:40 AM

oh thanks! i mailed it to a number theory professor- Mr. Flach, I believe. Waiting for a reply.

Quelloquialism · 04-10-2009, 09:54 PM

Just as a heads-up, Prof. Flach is probably a pretty busy guy these days, I think, since he's teaching one track of the freshman core math course (Ma 1c analytic) and he's the chair of the math department, on top of the usual professorial things--so I'd imagine that even if he is open to the idea of checking proofs, he might be slow on the reply.

ayushkhaitan · 04-10-2009, 10:10 PM

oh ok. thanks. would you like to suggest any professor who might have time to brush throuh my fancies? Thanks for replying Quelloquialism.

lizzardfire · 04-10-2009, 10:43 PM

Professor and "has time to brush through your fancies" are pretty mutually exclusive. You might be willing to find someone to devote the time to it, but it probably won't be because they have free time on their hands. Maybe professors emeritus might. I don't really know any math profs, so I don't have any specific suggestions.

Just make sure that you understand that any prof doing this is doing a huge favor for you. If, for instance, you emailed a professor, waited five hours, and then emailed asking why you hadn't gotten a response I imagine the prof would be pretty irritated. (Hint: If you do this to anyone, they would probably be irritated.)

By the way, I have a hard time believing that someone apparently as intelligent as you are could not find the Caltech math faculty list. In the unlikely case that this is actually true, I have found a short instruction video for you on how to find it so that you fully understand the process. Please click on the link below.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=caltech+math+faculty

ayushkhaitan · 04-10-2009, 11:02 PM

well....thanks lizzardfire, but with all due respect, that was probably a bit patronising. what i meant was that when i looked through the caltech homepage (caltech.edu), i could not find a link to the math faculty's page immediately. so without having tried anymore,i just asked the guys here to help me. i didn't realise i could directly get their webpage through google- obvious, but didn't strike me at the right time.

ayushkhaitan · 04-11-2009, 12:17 AM

Thanks for your advice though. Invaluable. I will be sure not to pester the professors with my fancies.

lizzardfire · 04-11-2009, 01:32 AM

"i could not find a link to the math faculty's page immediately. so without having tried anymore,i just asked the guys here to help me."

You don't see this as a problem? Is your time more valuable than ours? You seem to think so. Then again, maybe I don't understand the situation clearly because I don't "have the initiative" to do your work for you.

As for being "patronizing", I suppose that you're right. Most of the students on this board are nice enough that they won't call you out for doing stupid/annoying things. I'm not really that nice.

ayushkhaitan · 04-11-2009, 01:49 AM

Alright. Apologies then lizzardfire, to all those who had to waste their valuable time "doing my work for me". Sorry for forcing my "stupidity" on you.

jsd472 · 04-11-2009, 07:58 PM

MathLinks :: View topic - Number Theory Troll and Crank Factory

Crackpot index

This isn't meant to be rude, but these sites might give you an idea of what other posters are hinting at. People claiming to have solved extremely difficult problems in math and physics are abundant, and you're exhibiting some of the same behaviors they do, which makes it hard to take you seriously. On a note of etiquette, you're better off asking the professor's permission first to send your paper. (otherwise you look like a crank) If you'd like, you could pm me your paper as a pdf, and I'd look over it.

ayushkhaitan · 04-11-2009, 09:09 PM

Thanks for the reply jsd472. I was made aware of such websites by my roommate when I told him about it actually. And what's more, my proof could be wrong, so that I may turn out to be a complete idiot or "crackpot". But as far as I am concerned, I'd just like to try and request people to go through my proof. Who knows? Maybe I have hit the jackpot. It's like playing the lottery. I mean.....kinda looks alright to me. Could I pm my proof in MS Word format? Thanks.

Quelloquialism · 04-12-2009, 03:34 AM

So, I don't know any math, so I can't really comment on this whole proof business. But reading that link to MathLinks that you posted, jsd472...

"I banana banana so wrong!!! You bad wrong! Look fire ground run." -- zeb

zeb is now my hero. (for reference, zeb is a freshman at Caltech)