Big News (?)
May. 7th, 2005 12:44 am(00:01:33) fantasychrono: ok
(00:01:39) fantasychrono: Simon Rubenstein-Salzedo
(00:01:45) fantasychrono: claims a grad student at his school
(00:01:51) fantasychrono: has proved the 4-color thrm in 3.5 pages
(00:01:55) Sniffnoy: !
(00:01:55) fantasychrono: he is sending me a copy
(00:01:57) fantasychrono: in the near future
(00:01:59) fantasychrono: of the paper
(00:02:05) Sniffnoy: who is Simon Rubenstein-Salzedo?
(00:02:20) fantasychrono: hes the "Simon" on the AoPS shirt
(00:02:26) Sniffnoy: oh
(00:02:56) Sniffnoy: neatness
(00:03:15) fantasychrono: sweeet
(00:04:16) fantasychrono: page 1 has been scanned
(00:08:21) Sniffnoy: just, it's been scanned, or it's been sent to you?
(00:08:54) fantasychrono: scanned
(00:08:58) Sniffnoy: aw
(00:09:26) fantasychrono: I REALLY WANNA READ THIS!
(00:11:33) Sniffnoy: SO DO I!
(00:13:40) fantasychrono: what email u want it to
(00:14:13) Sniffnoy: sniffnoy@optonline.net
(00:14:15) fantasychrono: ok
(00:14:32) fantasychrono: sent
(00:16:01) fantasychrono logged out.
Tom forwards me the email, which reads
You might not be able to figure out what this has to do with the four color theorem, but here it is anyway.
Simon
Followed by the 4 pages scanned in as jpegs. Well, I the result actually proven in there (given any two parenthesizations of x0x1...xn, there is some way to plug in i,j,k,-i,-j,-k for the various variables (in the same order) so that (if the multiplication being used is the cross product) the results for the two parenthesizations are equal and nonzero) certainly seems to be proven correctly, the proof is pretty simple to follow, I doubt there's some mistake I didn't catch, but, of course, what this has to do with the four-color theorem I have no idea...
-Sniffnoy
(00:01:39) fantasychrono: Simon Rubenstein-Salzedo
(00:01:45) fantasychrono: claims a grad student at his school
(00:01:51) fantasychrono: has proved the 4-color thrm in 3.5 pages
(00:01:55) Sniffnoy: !
(00:01:55) fantasychrono: he is sending me a copy
(00:01:57) fantasychrono: in the near future
(00:01:59) fantasychrono: of the paper
(00:02:05) Sniffnoy: who is Simon Rubenstein-Salzedo?
(00:02:20) fantasychrono: hes the "Simon" on the AoPS shirt
(00:02:26) Sniffnoy: oh
(00:02:56) Sniffnoy: neatness
(00:03:15) fantasychrono: sweeet
(00:04:16) fantasychrono: page 1 has been scanned
(00:08:21) Sniffnoy: just, it's been scanned, or it's been sent to you?
(00:08:54) fantasychrono: scanned
(00:08:58) Sniffnoy: aw
(00:09:26) fantasychrono: I REALLY WANNA READ THIS!
(00:11:33) Sniffnoy: SO DO I!
(00:13:40) fantasychrono: what email u want it to
(00:14:13) Sniffnoy: sniffnoy@optonline.net
(00:14:15) fantasychrono: ok
(00:14:32) fantasychrono: sent
(00:16:01) fantasychrono logged out.
Tom forwards me the email, which reads
You might not be able to figure out what this has to do with the four color theorem, but here it is anyway.
Simon
Followed by the 4 pages scanned in as jpegs. Well, I the result actually proven in there (given any two parenthesizations of x0x1...xn, there is some way to plug in i,j,k,-i,-j,-k for the various variables (in the same order) so that (if the multiplication being used is the cross product) the results for the two parenthesizations are equal and nonzero) certainly seems to be proven correctly, the proof is pretty simple to follow, I doubt there's some mistake I didn't catch, but, of course, what this has to do with the four-color theorem I have no idea...
-Sniffnoy
