Martin,
I've never really understood why this is such an interesting problem
to people. It's quite easy to solve with Sage.
sage: implicit_multiplication(True)
sage: N,P = var('N,P')
sage: solve(P == N P)
[N == 1]
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Martin Michael Musatov
<marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> “If smart people all had Ph.D.’s we would not have light bulbs.” –
> Martin Musatov speaking on American Entrepeneur and Innovator Thomas
> Edison
>
>
> Preface: “Computational Complexity”
>
> So much of what I have seen since I have began studying computational
> complexity simply amazes me. I have come from an outsiders perspective
> peering into this vast new world where obvious things hide themselves
> and complex things take center stage to be studied like pellets of
> sand beneath a microscope. I will say this one thing: I have never
> been treated with more disdain in an academic setting. I have had
> M.I.T. Assistant Professor Scott Aaronson threaten to contact my
> Internet Service Provider and call me a “goon” for disproving his
> theorem publicly. I have been called a “troll” and “couch boy” the
> latter I have no idea what the colloquial means. I have had my I.P.
> address blocked from contributing to Wikipedia and have been sent
> threatening emails from Wikipedia administrators saying, “Wikipedia
> doesn’t need you.” Since I began pursuing my proof of computational
> complexity my Wikipedia profile for my work as a screenwriter (which
> had remained untouched for the better part of three years) was
> immediately flagged as “non-notable” and deleted. And all because the
> mathematics and code I was inputting was too advanced for wiki
> language to swallow without causing system problems and offending
> apparently some very sensitive people. And all over a tiny little
> problem in theoretical computer science called P=NP.
>
> Basically, as the case may certainly be there seem to be a lot of
> people out there absolutely insistent that “P” does not equal “NP”.
> But I have to wonder, if it is only theory we are debating here, what
> is so vested by this people that they defend an insistent of an
> impossibility as if it were the holy grail? It just does not make
> sense to me. I will say this, especially, it does not make sense to
> argue that something such as P equals NP has to be impossible. If it
> were true there are well documented published articles such as this
> one in the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/
> 2009/02/09/great_unknowns/) which blatantly list all the potential
> benefits we might experience if the scientific community would accept
> P=NP. The list includes advances in “Protein Folding” which could spur
> unprecedented growth and advances in biological research which may
> well include cures for diseases like cancer and H.I.V. So dare I say,
> why are noted professors at top universities such as Scott Aaronson at
> M.I.T. and Stephen Arthur Cook at the University of Toronto so
> insistent of its impossibility? What could be so motivating as one
> would defend such a contrary position to which being contrariety holds
> no obvious benefit for society at large. The elephant in the room
> seems to be that this argument has been raging and churning for years
> ever since Stephen Cook invented the class “NP-Complete” back in 1970.
>
> My goal, my dream, in pursuing a proof that P=NP was not to win a
> million dollars and notoriety, but to help the people in the world use
> the technology to better take care of themselves and their families.
> My goals personally are to help my young niece who just had an implant
> put in her ear so she could hear better and to spur advances in cancer
> research as my uncle and Godfather Michael Schultz was in the last
> month diagnosed with kidney and bone cancer. So still, I continue on,
> every morning pursuing the solution despite the animosity and
> ignorance.
>
> My dreams are simply bigger than theirs. My dreams are not to predict
> the S&P 500 and compromise the security of banks by collapsing known
> elements of cryptography. My dreams are that a young researcher in
> Tibet working by himself may uncover a cure for cancer that no one had
> seen. My goal is that a hobby mechanic in rural Russia with access to
> the Internet will invent a hybrid computer driven engine which will
> best all the struggling automakers who we continue to float
> financially like giant sick whales out to sea. My dream is that the
> academic community would allow openaccess to citizens at large and not
> simply the ones who can afford the prestigious school tuition. The
> basis of my plea: history has shown it to be the best path.
>
> With only three months of formal education he became one of the
> greatest inventors and industrial leaders in history. Edison obtained
> 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual.
>
> Call this my prayer or call it my plea it is my cry to the scientific
> community and to God in heaven can we please work together here and
> accomplish some good in the world instead of warbled disagreement? My
> last thought is to ask yourself why would anyone insist on the
> absolute impossibility of something that could bring so much good to
> the world?
>
> Quotes by Thomas Edison:
>
> “Hell, there are no rules here we’re trying to accomplish something.”
>
> “I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten
> thousand times, materials and combination which wouldn’t work.”
>
> “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of
> the service it might give others.”
>
> “I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every
> source. My principal business is giving commercial value to the
> brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.”
>
> “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one
> thing that he can’t afford to lose.”
>
> “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent
> it.”
>
> “I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there
> than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
>
> Thank you for reading this letter. If you have any comments or
> suggestions please feel free to contact me through the publisher.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Martin Michael Musatov
>
> Note to Editor: You have to wonder with stories like these, could
> there be something more to this whole element that as to yet remains
> unseen.
>
> VAST SPY SYSTEM LOOTS COMPUTERS IN 103 COUNTRIES… (N.Y. Times, Front
> Page)
> Canadians find network… (AP News)
>
> >
>
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