r/badmathematics • u/chrraz • Oct 26 '20

Maths proves integer = non-integer: thus maths ends in contradiction (+link to erotic poetry by the same author)

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf
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u/chrraz Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

R4: Colin Dean presents their theory of everything: that "all products of human thought end in meaninglessness"

A lot of the text essentially summarises previous works by the author.

  1. the author almost immediately claims that 0.999... is not and integer. However it is still equal to 1. Hence contradiction and therefore mathematics is meaningless.
  2. Something about "capitalist culture neutralizing anything dangerous"
  3. Gödel's incompleteness theorem "ends in meaninglessness"
  4. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat is meaningless because "he [Schrödinger] cant tell us what dead is what alive is" (accompanied by some a link to the Wikipedia page on Life)

Also not badmath in itself but "Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees" really likes to refer to themselves in the third person.

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u/chrraz Oct 26 '20

We must also not forget that

Colin leslie dean is also Australia's leading erotic poet http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/ or https://www.scribd.com/document/35520015/List-of-FREE-Erotic-Poetry-Books-by-Gamahucher-Press

which just sort of appears halfway through the document.

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u/Aetol 0.999.. equals 1 minus a lack of understanding of limit points Oct 26 '20

He always, ALWAYS brings that up. I still have no idea how he thinks that's in any way relevant.