Terrence Howard’s Bizarre War on Basic Math

The fundamental theorem of algebra states that all polynomials of degree N with complex coefficients are factorable into N complex linear factors. That is, all polynomials of degree N with complex coefficients have N locations where the polynomial evaluates to 0 (sometimes the same place multiple times).

If he had any real friends they'd be using his own logic w/ him in everyday conversation by "correcting" him every time he uses the words "a" or "an" until he's so annoyed he gives up. T: "I gotta go take a dump." "So, you gotta take TWO dumps, you mean, Terry." "Where's that $200 you promised me, Terry?" T: "Hold on, but I only said 'A' hundred !" "Correct, & a single unit of $100 is $200. I don't make the rules, Terry, you do, remember?"

It's all bout them waves conjugating, mayne!

I tried watching a Howard movie the other night. All I could think about was the insane amount of crazy that was bouncing around in his head.

There are some people who claim to actually believe him. If thats true, its very dangerous

Hi. I'd like to comment on something small. "Loop" is not exclusively a programming term. It somewhat aptly describes what Terrence is doing with that whole shtick -- a process that (trivially provably, due to the rules of algebra) loops.

Great video! Thanks for the shout-out in the description! The Terrence Howard rabbit hole is deep!!

I took a class last semester on set theory/formal mathematics, and one of the many things I did during that class was use a formal definition of the successor function (the function that returns the next natural number after its input; basically just sigma(n)=n+1) to show that 1 is the multiplicative identity. Even when you abstract all the way down to the lowest level of ZFC (which we only ever briefly discussed on the last day of class and never actually really worked with; I imagine it would be extremely tedious), the statement that 1*n=n should still hold. There's a reason math is the way it is — it needs to be logically consistent for anything to work. I'm pretty sure that trying to axiomize 1*1=2 would require you to redefine literally everything else.

I'd say Terrence Howard loved the movie Interstellar

Why are we giving this guy any traction?

"If I knew anything about physics I would know why this sounds like gibberish rather than just saying it sounds like gibberish to me" - inverse dunning krueger

Just for correction "Loop" it is a term used in many areas of math, and have different meanings depending on the context you are using it (for example loop in algebra and combinatorics its an algebraic structure wich is kind of a group without the associativity, and in topology a loop is a continous function from the unit circle to a topological space, not to mention that the programming meaning of a loop can definitely be regarded as a mathematical term aswell). I dont know much about Terrence Howard's book since this is the first time im hearing of it (and i wish i hadn't lol), so i dont know exactly what he refers to as "loop". But to be honest i kinda like the word "loop" as a description for irrationality since irrational numbers can be associated with "not halting" in many instances, so i guess we can say they are kind of "loopy" xd.

By saying "the square root of 2 is a loop" could he mean a repeating decimal? (It isn't, of course).

An interesting tidbid I gained from various clip about Howard: he proclaims that 1 x 1 =2... but he also does that "loop" trick where he uses the (correct) squareroot of 2... and here we learn that he declares that this sqr(2) is rational. Does he really not understand what a squareroot is... and that if he was correct, that squareroot of 2 would be 1? (Which, admittedly, is rational). I'm totally not opposed to "new ideas" and "thinking outside of the box". But if he really wanted to do that... he should at least understand what the "old ideas" and the "box" really stand for.

Terrence Howard's knowledge, concepts, and formulations are beyond the ken of your trained scientific mind.

I apologize for the confusion surrounding this. The initial recording suffered from the microphone being switched between my Blue Snowball Mic and my Logitech headset, which resulted in inconsistent sound quality. I had to rerecord and re-upload the video. The original premiere failed to go off at the scheduled time as well. It was just a frustrating night of technical problems all around.

Very interesting, thank you.

Can someone show him the reinmann hypothesis and explain; that's why.

ok but just so we're clear I was on team Terrence the whole time...for reals... #FieldsMedal

I think people making videos debunking him just entertains his ideas and make him more popular. Just ignore this clown lol.