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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. [closed]

apr 16 at 19:41 Benjamin Steinberg 10.8k●1●14●49

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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

may 9 at 23:09 Dan Sălăjan 274●8

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Demonstrating that rigour is important

may 4 12 at 18:53 Sergei Akbarov 704●4●10

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Generalizing a problem to make it easier

mar 3 12 at 10:17 Uday 1,161●5●14

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Why does the Riemann zeta function have non-trivial zeros?

mar 28 12 at 2:17 chei 1

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Has mathoverflow yet led to mathematical breakthroughs? [closed]

may 14 12 at 1:02 Changwei Zhou 508●6●11

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Are there any very hard unknots?

jun 14 at 20:15 Panos 41●2

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Can infinity shorten proofs a lot?

mar 24 at 12:50 katz 1,264●1●12

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How many surjections are there from a set of size n?

jun 28 10 at 20:27 Terry Tao 28.3k●4●111●186

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How can there be topological 4-manifolds with no differentiable structure?

mar 24 11 at 9:00 Benoît Kloeckner 5,741●18●30

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