On 19 May 2014 07:37, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> You did not provide evidence that they cannot do that. >> > > His evidence was the negative answer to Hilbert's 10th problem. > > To be exact, it's claimed to be *how he arrived at* that answer. The extract says that he arrived at a proof that "no algorithm could have found". How did he find it? The paper is far too high powered for my little brain, so I am hoping for an answer for dummies. Did he decide that the answer might have some particular form using intuition, say, tried it, and found it worked? How did he (or anyone) then show there was no algorithm for finding it?
(This is reminiscent of "The Emperor's New Mind", which IIRC attempts to prove that some gifted mathematicians are not machines!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
