[00:02] in every mathematics Forum that he can post in Australia's self-declared best erotic poet dumps his proof that mathematics is self-contradictory and that a mathematicians are fools for doing maths today I'm going to show why
[00:17] doing maths today I'm going to show why the self-titled magar Colin Leslie Dean is wrong and perhaps teach a little bit about actual mathematics along the way if I'm feeling extra Feist I might even go after him on his home
[00:33] I might even go after him on his home turf of literature so what is Colin Dean's proof of mathematics self-contradiction that he inflicts upon the undeserving mathematical Community with the annoying recurrence rivaled
[00:48] with the annoying recurrence rivaled only by a foot fungus it goes as follows the whole numbers are numbers without nonzero digits to the right of the decimal place and the nonhle number numbers have nonzeros to the right of
[01:02] the decimal point 1.0 is a whole number because it can be 1.0 is a whole number because it can be represented with no nonzero numbers to the right of the decimal point 0.9 repeating is not a whole number it has
[01:19] nonzero digits to the right of the decimal point but one equals 0.9 repeating this means that the that a whole number is equal to a non-hole
[01:31] number something being equal to its opposite is a contradiction so therefore all of mathematics is wrong a proof structured like this is called a proof by contradiction the idea is if you start from a group of assumptions and
[01:47] get to a contradiction then one of your assumptions must be wrong to our master of erotic verse the assumption that he has concluded is wrong is that
[01:59] has concluded is wrong is that mathematics has meaning however perhaps there is another assumption that was made which would be better to select as the incorrect one perhaps what is wrong is not the whole of mathematics but the
[02:14] definition our poet is using for whole numbers there is a basic principle of mathematics that mathematical facts should be true independent of the
[02:26] notation that you use the ancient Greek for example have Notions of whole and non-hole numbers but they didn't have decimals so that clearly shows that
[02:38] there must be some other way of distinguishing between whole and distinguishing between whole and non-hole numbers without using decimals I'm not going to go into the ancient Greek system here I'm going to go with
[02:50] the standard modern definition of whole numbers it starts with taking pairs of counting or natural numbers pairs where the replacement in the pair matters I've
[03:02] already talked about what the formal definition of what a counting number is in another video but in short the counting numbers are basically zero the next number after zero the next number after that one and so on and so on with
[03:18] these pairs of counting numbers we now establish a few rules about how pairs can be equivalent first we say a pair is equivalent to the pair that we get after
[03:30] adding one to the first and the second number in the pair then we say that equivalence is transitive in other words if Diamond pair and circle pair are
[03:43] equivalent and circle pair and square pair are equivalent then Diamond pair and square pair are equivalent we then collect all the equivalent pairs into sets we then can call the entire collection of sets the the whole numbers
[04:00] collection of sets the the whole numbers or integers we can give each set a name and each set can have multiple names so this set can be called one 0.9 repeating
[04:12] itchy you know with this definition of a whole number our Poetics friends proof can now be resolved without contradiction because we are simply referring to two different names for the same thing and the fact that one name
[04:30] has digits to the right of the decimal point no longer matters well at least Colin Leslie Dean has his poetry so let's review his poetry his
[04:42] poetry so let's review his poetry his poetry is unreadable yes poetry is subjective but for this particular subject 20 pages of a single runon sentence without line breaks or rhythm
[04:56] sentence without line breaks or rhythm with archaic words splashed in seeming L at random shifting unpredictably between using the fonts Papyrus and Matta script is just not conducive to pleasure but there is something that goes beyond just
[05:11] there is something that goes beyond just my personal preferences he has published quinin erotic poems from the Australian Aborigines which he claims are re-imagined translations of Aboriginal poetry
[05:26] cultures of the Australian Aboriginal people are under constant threat so if a non-aboriginal person was to publish poetry passing off as being genuinely
[05:40] Aboriginal that would be kind of scummy I truly hope that he is of Aboriginal descent but let's just skim over the rest of this guy's catalog of published books of poetry he has a book of Muslim erotica
[05:58] poetry he has a book of Muslim erotica authored by him and a book of Indian erotica oh and some Japanese erotica unless he's an Indian Muslim Aboriginal
[06:10] Australia with Japanese Heritage this is really problematic the mathematical Community will most likely never be free of our
[06:23] self-appointed greatest erotic poet but at least the foundations of mathematics isn't at risk with a few good definitions it is rugged as for the literature Community I am sure that they are able
[06:39] Community I am sure that they are able to make their own about more Concepts such as these please consider watching some of
[06:51] these please consider watching some of my videos recommended