I read that Cecil sometimes visits this message board, so this message is for Cecil only. No one else need reply.
Hi Cecil,
My name is Don Blazys and I need your help.
Here: http://donblazys.com/ , you will find three versions of my “Proof of Beal’s Conjecture”, along with some related letters and articles.
As you can see, it is exceedingly simple and can be stated in less than a page. Moreover, it has been verified and confirmed by many very good mathematicians including a top notch “referee” at the London Mathematical Society and a former NASA/JPL scientist. Google searching “Beal’s Conjecture Proof” shows that all three versions are now ranked at or near the very top and I am now getting dozens of e-mails about it every week. Thus, it is clear that its popularity is growing rapidly.
However, in order for me to collect the $100,000.00 prize that was offered by Mr. Andrew Beal for a solution to his conjecture, the “prize committee” requires that any such solution be recognized by the “math community” in general. Thus, in order to make my proof known to as many mathematicians as possible, I have offered to debate its merits with any major college or university math department and have even tried to get it into the hands of Marilyn vos Savant and Chris Langan, both of whom have IQ’s of about 200 and are generally considered to be two of the smartest people in the world. Unfortunately, both of them are extremely hard to contact, and neither of them have responded to my e-mails, even though I offered them both half of the prize money ($50,000.00) for a public confirmation and verification of my proof.
Since you are also a public figure who is considered by many to be among the smartest people in the world, let me now extend the exact same offer to you. If you publicly confirm and verify that my Proof of Beal’s Conjecture is indeed both true and correct, and thereby put some serious pressure on the “math community” to give my proof the attention and consideration it deserves, then I will donate half of the “Beal prize” to you or any charity of your choosing. For someone as smart as yourself, this should be “easy money”.
Please Cecil, Christmas time is approaching and there are a lot of kids out there who can use some help.
The above offer will remain good until Christmas Day, after which time I will retract it.
Thus, if any of you want to fight not only ignorance, but disease and hunger as well, then I suggest you pester Cecil to at least consider the above offer, before it’s too late.
There is a mistake in your ‘paper’ so I very much doubt it.
I would try and point this obvious flaw out to you but after doing a Google search for your name I have found many, many forum threads at various fora all trying to do this but failing.
To be “recognized by the mathematics community” means that you have to have your paper accepted by a refereed mathematics journal. It says exactly that in the announcement for the prize:
So go ahead and submit your paper to such a journal. You claim that your proof has been checked by “many very good mathematicians.” If that’s true, one of them can show you how to submit a paper to a journal and what journals to submit it to. Having your proof read by Cecil Adams or Marilyn vos Savant or Chris Langan or the people at the SDMB is completely irrelevant, since they aren’t referees for a mathematics journal. (Well, there are some mathematicians on the SDMB, including me, but if you ask them to read a paper not submitted to a mathematics journal they read submissions for, their opinion counts for nothing with respect to winning the prize. All they could tell you is to go ahead and submit the paper to a journal.)
Have you submitted the paper to various journals? What did they say about your proof? You can’t do an end-run around the journals. Having a lot of fans counts for nothing. You have to get the paper accepted by a refereed mathematics journal.
No mistake was ever found in my paper or I would not be presenting it to the smartest people in the world.
Quoting “martu”
Of course they all failed! Failure is inevitable when one foolishly attacks something that is both true and correct!
Moreover, have you noticed how each and every one who was foolish enough to attack my proof did so from behind a veil of anonimity, using childish pseudonyms like “Dipshtik”, “Pipsicup”, “Fartooh” and “martu”?
The fact that they are afraid to put their real names and reputations “on the line” speaks volumes about both their cowardice and their stupidity.
I, on the other hand, have no such fear because I know that I am right.
If you want to debate the issue of my proof, then let’s first verify your real name and your college or university affiliation. Otherwise, please leave this thread alone as it is only for Cecil.
If you go to my website, then you will find that my paper was indeed submitted to the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, and even though it was given some support by the referees, the editors were still too frightened to publish it!
So I say, to heck with them! I’m going to embarrass them all by bringing the issue of my proof to the very smartest people in the world… like Cecil.
Don me old mucker, if you submitted it and it was supported by the referees, what stopped them from publishing. I’m not a mathematician but I’ve observed when someone comes up with a new proof, people are usually falling over themselves to publish it.
What causes this “fear” you accuse them of?
Also, there’s something you might want to know about Cecil. In the words of Michael Jackson, he’s not like other boys.
Of course, if you were just after Cecil’s view alone rather than personal ego-stroking you could have just emailed him directly instead of posting your thesis here. But a smart guy with your credentials surely knew that already.
You’ve been on message boards before, so you know that isn’t how they work. If you wanted private correspondence you would have used real and/or snail mail. I suspect you use message boards instead to promote your theory to the masses(not really the way real science works, by the way-voting on facts just isn’t how it is done), so you don’t get to dictate who responds to your post.
> . . . please leave this thread alone as it is only for Cecil . . .
Once again, it doesn’t matter the least if you persuade Cecil. Even if he reads your paper, decides that you’re God, and starts a religion using your paper as its holy text, it won’t win you the prize. To win the prize, you have to get your paper accepted by a mathematical journal.
Here’s a problem for you: estimate how many crackpot theories have used the Galileo defense. Now calculate how many Galileos there were. Now work out how likely that someone using the Galileo defense actually has anything of value to propose.
Speaking as one of Cecil’s assistants: don’t hold your breath. Cecil does scan these Message Boards from time to time, but mostly he’s looking for topics that would be of general interest to his readers, to provide the launch question for a column. He is unlikely to take on extra work, no matter how juicy the prize, when he is pretty confident that you won’t win the prize.
As others have noted, the conditions of the prize are that the proof be published in a “reputable refereed journal.” Cecil’s column is not a reputable refereed journal. Neither is Cecil “the mathematics community” – nor even recognized as a member thereof. So, even if he agreed with your proof, it would not help you win the prize. (And all indications are that if he disagreed, you would ignore him.) In short, this is not a situation where his putting forth work and energy will produce anything, and he’s intelligent enough to ignore it.
(2) There is a difference between “intelligence” and “education” or “knowledge.” Cecil may be the smartest human being, but there are certainly lots of people who have more knowledge than he does in their fields of expertise. Cecil is not “the mathematics community” and his approval That’s