Timeline for How to refer to a “theorem” that you have shown to be wrong
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| Feb 22 at 16:06 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Sep 23, 2023 at 8:33 | comment | added | Ben McKay | An asterisk for the birth year and a dagger for the death year might make the intended meaning clearer. | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | Joachim Breitner | Nice idea for a talk, but I doubt that it is a suitable style for a journal. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 0:59 | comment | added | Angelo | To Noam: ok, I replaced the $-$ with a long dash. They look identical to me. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 0:58 | history | edited | Angelo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2013 at 19:17 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | Looks like it's theorem number $-4$. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | Angelo | Dear Henry, I did not mean this to be a serious suggestion; but I found this unbelievably funny. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 17:05 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | This might be confusing to someone stumbling across it in a paper (it might be read as "this theorem was proved between 1983 and 1987 but published later"), but I love it. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 17:00 | history | answered | Angelo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |