Math Is Fun Forum

  Discussion about math, puzzles, games and fun.   Useful symbols: ÷ × ½ √ ∞ ≠ ≤ ≥ ≈ ⇒ ± ∈ Δ θ ∴ ∑ ∫ • π ƒ -¹ ² ³ °

You are not logged in.

#51 2012-07-26 20:37:29

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Your posts aren't even in LATEX.  cmowla's "Mathematica" results are clear. You are simply wrong!
I wish there was a kinder way to say that, but... this issue is just too important for us to "beat around the bush."

Don.

Offline

#52 2012-07-26 20:54:00

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Just because my posts aren't in LaTeX implies tgat I am wrong? That is truly false logic.

I am not beating around the bush. I have directly stated in post #44. If you don't see it I can explain it in more detail or have somebody else explain it to you.

Neither of you have read my comment on cmowla's graphs.

Last edited by anonimnystefy (2012-07-26 20:56:32)


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#53 2012-07-26 21:21:44

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

That your posts aren't even in LATEX shows that you can't
even take the time or trouble to articulate yourself clearly!

In other words, it implies that you are not serious.

cmowla's graphs clearly show that my equations are both true and correct.
Why you can't handle that, I don't know.

Don.

Offline

#54 2012-07-26 21:30:32

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

No, it just implies that I am on my phone. If I was on my computer like I am now, I would be glad to LaTeX anything that needs LaTeXing.

The two graphs aren't the same. The second one has singularities along the line x=y.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#55 2012-07-26 21:35:41

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Which of course proves my point!

Offline

#56 2012-07-26 21:38:09

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

No it doesn't. Did you look at post #44? Can you comprehend it correctly?


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#57 2012-07-26 21:43:02

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Yes, I comprehend it perfectly. It shows that you are wrong.

Don.

Offline

#58 2012-07-26 21:52:28

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

anonimnystefy wrote:
Don Blazys wrote:

This is the flawed step. He turned an exponential with base a^3/b to an exponential of the form 1^(log_1(...)) (which is "against the rules") and then turned that into a fraction using logarithm rules.

This is the post I am talking about. It shows that you are wrong.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#59 2012-07-26 21:59:58

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

That's an identity, pure and simple. You are wrong.

Offline

#60 2012-07-26 22:08:01

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

It is not an identity. It is an identity when a<>b.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#61 2012-07-26 22:08:53

bobbym
bumpkin
From: Bumpkinland
Registered: 2009-04-12
Posts: 109,606

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

I am sorry fellows but at the beginning of a similar thread I warned everyone involved that name calling and fighting will not be tolerated. This thread is closed until tempers cool.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Offline

#62 2012-07-31 17:23:40

bobbym
bumpkin
From: Bumpkinland
Registered: 2009-04-12
Posts: 109,606

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

The thread is reopened for posting.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Offline

#63 2012-07-31 19:21:45

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Quoting anonimnystefy:


This is the flawed step.

Quoting anonimnystefy (one post later):

It is an identity when a<>b.

Well, if it's an identity, then there can be no "flawed step".

Don

Offline

#64 2012-07-31 23:35:29

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

It is flawed because you assumed in the begnning that a=b. The identity doesn't hold when a=b.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#65 2012-08-01 12:22:50

Stangerzv
Member
Registered: 2012-01-30
Posts: 266

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

I agree with anonimnystefy. You should put the condition at the end and not at the beginning because you know at the end the condition is not valid, implying it is not valid through out the derivation. In other words, it is wrong to put a=b in the first place. You should refer to the flaw proof of 2=1 when it is assumed at the beginning that a=b.

Offline

#66 2012-08-01 17:46:39

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Quoting anonimnystefy:

The identity doesn't hold when a=b.

That's what I said in the opening post of this thread!

So, do we now agree that given the identity:


we can never let
or substitute
for

even though those so called "axioms of equality" say we can?

Don

Offline

#67 2012-08-02 01:05:11

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

The axioms of equality do not say we can do that. The axioms of equality never mention logarithms in the first place.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#68 2012-08-02 22:07:04

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Quoting anonimnystefy:

The axioms of equality do not say we can do that.

Of course they do! Take for instance the substitution axiom of equality which states that
if two quantities are equal, then one can be replaced by the other in any equality or expression.

Well, the two quantities

and
are indeed equal,
but if we try to replace 
with
in the identity
,

then we quickly find that it's quite impossible, because clearly, the above identity has thoroughly and irrevocably
negated the closely related symmetric axiom of equality which states that if

, then
.

Now, this is not the first time that a faulty axiom has been negated by a perfectly logical mathematical construct.
We must not forget that the negation of Euclids fifth axiom (parallel postulate) ultimately resulted in many vastly
superior "non-Euclidean" geometries, one of which even allowed Einstein to formulate his theories of relativity!

Don.

Offline

#69 2012-08-02 23:56:22

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

The substitution cannot be done because the of the restrictions that the lofarithms pose. The "identity" works for a<>b, so substituting a=b is flawed.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#70 2012-08-03 20:21:50

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Quoting anonimnystefy:

The substitution cannot be done because the of the restrictions that the lofarithms pose.

You see folks, that so called "substitution axiom of equality",
which states that we can always and in all cases substitute

for
,
has been debunked by the rather simple counterexample
.

We can not allow that utterly ridiculous "axiom" to be shoved down our children's throats!

Don

Offline

#71 2012-08-03 21:32:28

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

I never said you cannot substitute a/a with b/b. Your further steps are incorrect.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#72 2012-08-04 10:00:51

cmowla
Member
Registered: 2012-06-14
Posts: 70

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Sorry Don, but even though

(where
),

Your whole argument is redundant.


Let me explain.

(Notice that it IS possible for

, and that's why I added that important detail in).

Since we have

as well as

, then your logarithmic function (if we choose not to simplify it to

) just illustrates a case where the condition
holds.

The 3D graph of your log function is different than the 3D graph of

, but that has nothing to do with the validity of your argument (it is neither for you nor against you) because the conditions for the values of
and
are not different (you just left out the fact that a can also not be equal to b in your first equation without the logs).

Here's a polynomial function which shows where the condition

must hold:

This supports the other possibility that a can be equal to b (a must be equal to b, that is...just as in your log function where a must not be equal to b....and we are assuming that we don't simplify our functions completely to (b/b)a^3).

An even more trivial case (which you probably thought of but didn't post) for when a must not equal b is:


and so suppose we have:

Again, the graph of

and
are different, but they do not disagree with the conditions.  How could they?  They are equal expressions once you simplify the more complicated one into the simpler one.

Last edited by cmowla (2012-08-04 12:40:08)

Offline

#73 2012-08-04 18:48:26

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Given the identity:

can we substitute

for
?

Please just answer yes or no without any commentary.

Don

Offline

#74 2012-08-04 20:05:03

anonimnystefy
Real Member
From: Harlan's World
Registered: 2011-05-23
Posts: 16,049

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

That is not an identity when a=b.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Offline

#75 2012-08-04 20:18:55

Don Blazys
Member
Registered: 2012-06-06
Posts: 32

Re: Shaking The Foundations Of Mathematics.

Please just answer yes or no without any commentary whatsoever.

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB