Quote: (10-23-2013 02:45 PM)cardguy Wrote:
...according to the world's greatest ever chess player, Garry Kasparov.
I'm not kidding. He is a believer in a fantastically odd alternative history of the world put together by the Russian mathematician, Anatoly Fomenko.
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Yet Kasparov is also a voracious student of history. He has read a library of books and memorised most significant dates in the human chronology. To him, there always seemed to be discrepancies in the human chronology. Then in 1996, Kasparov came across the famous Moscow State University mathematician Anatoly Fomenko who had published a textbook outlining his mathematical theory that history contained statistically improbable pattern duplications. The two men met and in 1998 Kasparov wrote a supportive Preface to Fomenko’s radical book "Introduction to New Chronology."
Earlier this year, I interviewed colleagues of Fomenko’s for a story in Saturday Night. During these conversations I found out about Kasparov’s fascination. It took a few weeks to track him down – Kasparov constantly travels the world playing chess -- but when I did, he spoke freely about several of the major problems in the chronology; including discrepancies in mapping, military technology, mathematics, and how historians are reacting.
http://www.timothytaylor.ca/10/08/23/gar...rview-2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
Lastly - I first saw Kasparov talk about this in a documentary. You can see him rant about this theory to his family below.
http://youtu.be/HbwMTv3IVzo?t=8m30s
The clip is in Russian - with Russian subtitles. But when I first came across it on TV - the rant had English subtitles.
Of the key claims - the one that most stands out is that the historical Jesus lived 1000 years ago - and not 2000 years ago.
Anyway - fascinating stuff all round!
Historical Jesus? I'm skeptical that Jesus even existed in the first place. This mathematician is just bolstering that belief.