Mumford in Rational equivalence of 0-cycles on surfaces gave an example where an intuitive result of Severi, who claimed the space of rational equivalence classes was finite dimensional, was just completely wrong: it is infinite dimensional for most surfaces. This is a typical example of why the informal non-rigorous style of algebraic geometry was abandoned: too many of the "obvious" but unproved results turned out to be incorrect.
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