Monday, January 2, 2017

Refutations of Received Wisdom



Thesis:  “You can’t put a quart in a pint pot.”  (old folk-adage)
Antithesis:  According to Banach-Tarski, you can.

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Thesis:  “Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée” (Musset).
["A door must be either open or closed."]
Antithesis:  On the contrary:  it might be ajar (a word we first learned in childhood, in the riddle:   Q: When is a door  not a door?”  A: When it’s ‘a-jar’.)  Or more generally, it might be clopen.

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Problem:  The central problem of computing science is whether P = NP.   How can we go about settling the question?
Answer:  Simple.   We need only demonstrate that N = 1.

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