While I'm on the subject of fury, here's another crazy pseudo-mathematical crank's webpage asserting, among other things, that 1950's juvenile space opera 'Tom Corbett: Space Cadet' was thinly-veiled documentary, telling of High-Ranking Officials' secret knowledge of an ancient civilisation from an exploded planet that tie in to said crank's claims (which are debunked in excruciating detail here) that Mars is just stuffed to the panties with signs of past habitation. Which it isn't.
Go and laugh at him.
This particular crank, one Richard Hoagland, dabbles in numerological mathturbation, and has also been debunked by one of the faculty in the Math Department here at the UW, Dr Ralph Greenberg, an extraordinarily nice man who even offered to debate Hoagland on Art Bell's radio programme.
Dr Greenberg also has a page of quotes on the poetics of maths.
And I found the vacuum cleaner.
Posted by aloysius at April 06, 2004 06:53 PM | TrackBack |