Timeline for Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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| Oct 16, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Scott Turow, who is perhaps the most prominent author in the genre of "legal thrillers", wrote "delivered through the mouth of June", and a copy editor "corrected" what was thought to be a typographical error, so that the published book says "delivered through the month of June." But "mouth" is correct, i.e. June was the person who orally transmitted the information. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | Andrea | @eric the mistake is indeed "old" instead if "odd" in the first edition! | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 12:24 | comment | added | eric | I can't find this in my copy of Hall's book :-( Google led me to a suggestion that it was on "p419" but the only mention of primes on p419 of my copy is in the middle of Theorem 20.9.13 where it's an odd prime. I have the second printing (published 1976). Maybe this is the problem? | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 0:56 | history | answered | John mac | CC BY-SA 2.5 |