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I wasn't going to comment in this thread, but my name was invoked:
Again, I take Andrew Stacey's stance (from another thread)and recommend tolerance.
If you truly wish to take my stance here then the recommended course of action is actually tolerance of sigfpe's attitude even though one might think it bizarre and an over-reaction. The tolerance that I commend is not that which says, "Let's agree to disagree" or "Everyone's point of view is equally valid" but rather than which says, "I think that X is right, you think that Y is right. I shall act in accordance with my views, but knowing that you think otherwise I shall do my best to act in such a way that I do not cause unnecessary offence.". Thus, to take the matter in hand, if I am offended by something then I do not hide that fact, but my reaction to it is tempered by the fact that I realise that not everyone else will be similarly offended.
@Will: Actually, he did yesterday, sometime after your email. I will send you another email shortly with more details (I've been somewhat distracted with other things as of late).
Well, he did try to lead some of us to enlightenment in various forms, religious, spiritual, philosophical and mathematical (you can see some of his efforts on all these fronts in this thread). So it was easy to read the word "trust" as an imperative form of the verb, rather than a noun. But anyway, I don't think we should reopen this discussion.
trustgod, please let's cut down on the poetry: neither this site, nor MO, are good places for that.
I agree with Mariano: these ruminations are out of place here. Iyengar, if you wish to philosophize on the internet, you can create your own blog for free -- go to wordpress.com. Please don't do it here.
I did not do anything negative to your question, but as somebody pointed out to you, it is an exact duplicate of an earlier question. So that it typically would at least be closed, no matter who asked it.
Dear trustgod,
Please recall that you have been sent an email by the moderators which, amongst other things, said: "and so I would ask that you do not post again on the site". As such, the moderators will delete anything your account posts on the site. Please try math.stackexchange.com.
yours sincerely, Scott Morrison
trustgod, there is some information at the end of Kevin Buzzard's answer to the question dke mentioned; also see a comment on that answer.
Yes it is not detailed; but there are questions to which noone knows a precise answer; perhaps this is one of them. In any case, if somebody has something to say on this question s/he could answer the existing question. So, there simply seems no urgent need to create a new question.
Something else: when I visited that question yesterday I saw two comments of you on Franz Lemmermeyer's answer there. Now, they are gone.
Dear Trust God,
I don't think that anyone on this site knows the answer to your question, and indeed it is quite possible that no number theorists at all know the answer. That is the reason that there is no answer forthcoming.
Regards,
Matthew Emerton
Iyengar: I can't speak for others, but I am not trying to make fun of you. I am trying, and have been trying, to suggest that you need to learn basic things before doing hard things. I am also trying to suggest that your "analytic skills" may not be sufficient to the lofty heights you keep asking about. Mathematics is cumulative, and wisdom is not always given by revelation.
One might, perhaps, be more willing to help educate you, if you showed more willingness to be educated. If you cannot tell the difference between constructive criticism and "making fun" then I suggest you find somewhere else to pursue your interests. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
"semi-literate people?" Are we not kulturny enough? My apologies. I still stand by my responses to trustgod, though.
Mark, if you are going to call people semi-literate, gang-member like and uncivilized, it would be best if you actually named who exactly you have in mind so as to avoid any confusion.
Let's all go outside for a breath of fresh air. I'll close this thread now, but of course anyone should feel free to start a new one as they desire.