The above is a shortened version of the Goldbach Conjecture, which, in ordinary non-technical terms states;
for all [upside-down 'A'] natural numbers['n' is a member/ "element" (E-like Greek letter "epsilon") of N], provided that the number in question is greater than or equal to 4, AND [^] the number is even, then there exist at least one [back-to-front 'E'] pair (p, q) of primes such that if the pair are added together, they give the sum of n.
So, there I was, an impressionable 17 year old, and someone wants to publish a book about some other guy who tried to prove whether the above was really true, and the publishers were offering a reward of US$1m to whoever proved it in two years![Source: Faber and Faber's published book, "Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis]
What do you think?
Of course I tried it! But I found I was on swamp ground when I found out that there was much confusion about what criteria would be used to 'prove' the conjecture [by its very name, a conjecture is something that was just hastily 'thrown together' from the Greek "conjectura"...OK, it is a bit long as an explanation,...spears and such... and I have no intention of having people run before they can crawl...so I will leave it at that...for now].
However, this was mathematics, and as such it had to be about a single 'statement' that showed that for all and ANY even number there WERE...or were not... primes that give a sum of the given even when added to each other.
That was not so much of a hurdle as was finding out that the number '1' was disputed as a 'prime', on what were shady grounds. The more I dug up about numbers, the more I discovered just how little was known about these everyday things which everyone uses, and the more I got to find just how 'impractical' pure mathematics was.
I did solve the Conjecture, and it is aesthetically beautiful...the solution that is,[ http://goldbachconjecturesolved.blogspot.com ] if one has a head for these things, and i will back it up any day for ANY even number, not just those greater than or equal to 4... but by then I had dropped out of the Rat Race for the money, and I was pursuing the truth about numbers, digging deep to find out just where the use of numbers was made into a formal 'subject', with rules, because it takes no genius to figure out that the mistakes, if any would lie with the basic rules... .
My research led me to the long-forgotten palaces of Ancient Babylon where the very first mathematical studies were performed, and the most well known of these mathematicians; the pioneer, in fact, was a Magus [plural 'Maji', although I suspect that the word was "Hellenized";- rendered into Greek, with the advent of the adventurer Alexander the Great] known as "Belteshazzar", or "Balthazzar".He and his fellows were the ones from whom the Greeks later copied.
In those days, Maji were advisors to the monarch, and some were called "Viziers", 'seers' [sort of like cabinet ministers today, but with some kind of leaning towards what are now frowned on as the 'dark arts', so think, in some instances, of human sacrifice, blood and guts and rituals every full moon... you know, the kind of thing NECESSARY to make the moon 'remember' to rise;- that type of thing], and a magus was a person who had to have more than just an ordinary intellect and some "mystic" background in order to impress the king and keep his 'hold" over the same.
The person had to be smart, but none more so than was the Belteshazzar character, although HIS secret had nothing to do with the grisly methods I have mentioned earlier. He was clean... probably would have been a "pastor" in today's world... or a high priest, with emphasis on the "high"!:- He mixed with royalty...the offspring of a family of 'breeding', and as such used to the status that came with the lifestyle. So, I mean, given a choice, and faced with the fact that failure to comply with the king's unexpressed but implicit expectations, and the lifestyle that came with it, would mean a degrading loss of "face" and status...not to mention, possibly, a life, would one not just compromise the truth a bit, ...just a teeny weeeny bit so that feathers are not ruffled?
Well, the guy was human, after all...
That is probably where the problem began:
Egos and flattery were mixed into what we received later as 'impeccable truth" [into which I have now 'pecked'], like this improbable statement; "Oh king, may you live forever!". Now, how can anyone who says THAT be a dispassionate conveyor of facts? Besides, anyone has to have something, in a competitive world, to hold over others so that he stays on top, but what I was to find especially where the particular 'magus' was concerned caused me to want to get to the bottom of his double-life and give credit where it is due, and take it away from where it was not.
You see, mathematics, as the Greeks later called it, was at first devised as a means of making sure that all the land was measured properly,for taxation, for example [from this we get our 'area' and 'squares' and 'geometry', the last means "earth measurement" although now with 'circle geometry', as an example, there never seems to be any real measurement going on,just paper and formulae] or that accounts were settled quickly and correctly. Imagine having to be in charge of 120 provinces, each with a different dialect, different customs and different weights of measurement [think gold!]
Standards had to be found, and the canny Belteshazzar found a way of ingratiating himself in the ruling monarch's graces by his efficiency in the way he handled this. He WAS the first mathematician.
But the biggest shock was not about what he achieved academically, it was rather the "mystic" part. The part that could not be explained away by saying it was all just "co-incidence".
The same person who was known as "Belteshazzar" was the man mentioned in the Bible as the prophet "Daniel", and although, like all politicians with their spin-doctoring and favour-currying he was transparent, certain things happened that made it impossible to deny the fact that there was more than mere "mist" to the mystic! While I was not impressed by the man, I was nevertheless unable to rationally account for the precise predictions the man made, which were all fulfilled well after his own time, and which made it impossible to doubt the very real possibility of The REALITY of GOD, because it is well known that nobody can tell what is going to be, and have it happen exactly that way, unless there is a decidedly supernatural explanation for that.
For that reason, I turned my attention to The Bible itself, not focusing on the supernatural as such but on the practical, and as I admitted earlier in my other posts, I found the Bible impeccable in the chronological detailing of the events, and I also discovered the vanity of people who, like Daniel, were "associated" with God [hey the man's ego must have shot to the moon when he was told, by an angel, no less, that he was "greatly beloved":- the point; check who did the complimenting! ; this is what I found out about God, He was never portrayed as bashful. If HE was pleased, He did not hide it, but for some..'one'...or some 'spirit' to say that made me begin to see the flaw in the tale of the 'great man' especially when God Himself later said to some other prophet that even if Daniel, Job and Moses stood before Him, He would not accept that they intercede for His people. That was a telling point for me]
I decided to do something about it, and so I began my trio of books, dedicated to reveal people as 'just people' and God as Himself, so that there is no confusion as to who is to blame for the falsehoods that litter the world today.
That is the Story behind HIS story!
So, COUNT1NG NUMB3R5 is all about making a distinction between the untruths we know today, and what really was the case at first.It is a theoretical book, meant only to emphasise the great gap between what now is and what was at first, pointing out where it all went wrong, and kept on accelerating.
At the end, it will show God as He is, which, as I promised, is not quite what anybody expects. Prepare for shocks galore, and earthquakes, as the very foundations of the academic world, and even of "faith" are shaken to the core!!!
COUNT1NG NUMB3R5
...the Upcoming Book
That will ROCK the WORLD!!!
