2010-03-11, 07:29 PM
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:Guys, credentials are worthless in mathematics. Proof is everything. That's why a patent clerk's theory of relativity got acknowledged and is something we take for granted today.
Whether Newton or Einstein said that 0.999... = 1, it does not matter if they can't prove it. Einstein thought that everything in this world can be calculated, but later, that was proven wrong. Einstein still didn't believe it.
tl;dr: Stop insulting other teachers: It doesn't contribute to the thread.
Proofs only convince mathematicians, that's why there's about 50% of the people here who are still not convinced. You need credentials to convince the other half.
sry COB maybe I should have used that word on your teacher, but let's just say your teacher is a minority in the mathematicians population.
"That 0.999...=1 has long been accepted by mathematicians and taught in textbooks. In the last few decades, researchers of mathematics education have studied the reception of this equality among students."
taken from wikipedia.

