The result was Snow delete, no need to give blatant hoaxes the benefit of the full seven days of AfD discussion. Fram ( talk) 10:59, 27 April 2009 (UTC) reply
This is a hoax. In response to my request for sources, the author Oldeagle ( talk · contribs) inserted the initial statement about it being based on "recent discoveries in the hand scripts" of Democritus and Leucippus. According to their articles, any hand script from Leucippus would be sensational news, as only one fragment of his works is known to have survived, and we only know Democritus' mathematics "through citations of his works in other writings."
Searches in Google and Scholar on "Trisk" or "Trisc" or every combination of them with "Democritus" or "Leucippus" turn up nothing relevant, e.g. [1], [2], [3]. The author has helpfully included links to "Trisk" on our sister projects, but none of them has anything about it.
Moreover, the mathematics is nonsense. If the equation given for a "trisk" had an equals sign, it would define an infinite surface in 3-space - to see this, consider that if we hold any variable, say z, constant, x can go to plus infinity (i.e. get as large as you like) while y goes to minus infinity, or the other way round. The area of this surface is infinite, not "πR3". The equation as actually given has a "less than" sign, so what it defines is not a surface but a set of points on one side of that infinite surface, occupying half of 3-space.
Delete as hoax. JohnCD ( talk) 20:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC) reply
The result was Snow delete, no need to give blatant hoaxes the benefit of the full seven days of AfD discussion. Fram ( talk) 10:59, 27 April 2009 (UTC) reply
This is a hoax. In response to my request for sources, the author Oldeagle ( talk · contribs) inserted the initial statement about it being based on "recent discoveries in the hand scripts" of Democritus and Leucippus. According to their articles, any hand script from Leucippus would be sensational news, as only one fragment of his works is known to have survived, and we only know Democritus' mathematics "through citations of his works in other writings."
Searches in Google and Scholar on "Trisk" or "Trisc" or every combination of them with "Democritus" or "Leucippus" turn up nothing relevant, e.g. [1], [2], [3]. The author has helpfully included links to "Trisk" on our sister projects, but none of them has anything about it.
Moreover, the mathematics is nonsense. If the equation given for a "trisk" had an equals sign, it would define an infinite surface in 3-space - to see this, consider that if we hold any variable, say z, constant, x can go to plus infinity (i.e. get as large as you like) while y goes to minus infinity, or the other way round. The area of this surface is infinite, not "πR3". The equation as actually given has a "less than" sign, so what it defines is not a surface but a set of points on one side of that infinite surface, occupying half of 3-space.
Delete as hoax. JohnCD ( talk) 20:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC) reply