On 5/3/12, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@teksavvy.com> wrote:
At the time Robert Munafo wrote that "he is deliberately isolating himself from the world, and we should probably just pretend he does not exist." I think the isolation is restricted to the internet, possibly because of the mannerless methods that electronic communication often affords:
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Sagnac/SagnacIdiocy.htm
It's not too difficult to find a non-electronic contact point, although one cannot (without attempting contact) determine its currency.
I think what I had in mind was more like how we would treat Ramanujan. Ramanujan is dead, but left behind a lot of work that clearly has value. It's up to the people who are still alive to figure out what to do with Ramanujan's work. We could treat the Math Pages that way. Perhaps there's a mistake or something that doesn't make sense. Perhaps an entire essay seems out of whack. We can't ask the author, so we just treat it like finding a mistake in Ramanujan's notebooks. Either omit the result entirely, or make a list of errata telling where the mistakes were found, or whatever. -- Robert Munafo -- mrob.com Follow me at: gplus.to/mrob - fb.com/mrob27 - twitter.com/mrob_27 - mrob27.wordpress.com - youtube.com/user/mrob143 - rilybot.blogspot.com