2 HS students from NOLA shake up the world of math in a huge way...

Sun Wukong said
Unfortunate, as I was looking forward to your analysis on this. Always lame when actual discourse gets derailed by childish outbursts.

I'm under no delusion that there's more than one adult here that wants to see these girls work "taken down" for whatever miserable excuse they can conjure.

I guess this desire to put these girls in their place is just so high you're also willing to overlook that he originally got the premise of their paper entirely wrong. Then when he got called out for that he started this middle school level, rudimentary explanation of geometry AS IF Trigonometry is not a subset of geometry and therefore well in line with the purpose of their proof.

But let's overlook all of that or the fact that the childish outburst here was him comparing their work to nonsense in an attempt to discredit it. He's been trying to downplay their achievement since the first page of the thread. And oh look, you're right there with him on page 2. So even after their paper was peer reviewed and published in American Mathematical Monthly, which has been printed since 1894, a respected math journal, he was still trying to discredit it. He's the real victim here. Poor guy just wanted to pick on a paper written by a couple girls for trying to do math good.

I'm not sorry for pointing out utter bias and crap when I see it. I doubt some guy on SR that's just mad that these girls are getting attention for writing a paper proving the Pythagorean Theorem using Trigonometry is going to find something that peer review and a Mathematical Journal fiunded when Grover Cleveland was President didnt find. Especially when his preliminary breakdown is basically, "so they're using geometry..."

If he genuinely was trying to explain the paper in terms most could understand it would be one thing. If he was truly embracing their achievement and trying to understand it, it would be one thing. His tone and his words since page one have been dismissive. He hasn't hidden his skepticism and contempt from page one. I don't care if his feelings got hurt after being called out for attacking these girls' work. He should be ashamed.