Timeline for What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics?
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| May 28, 2022 at 16:14 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Danu | @JohnStillwell I think it's worthwhile to incorporate this comment into the answer for completeness (remember: comments are not meant to be of lasting value | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 2:30 | history | edited | John Stillwell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Fixed spelling of "Smale"
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| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:51 | comment | added | John Stillwell | Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Smale proved a general result about immersions of spheres of arbitrary dimension (I don't know the details). His advisor Raoul Bott pointed out that the general result implied that the 2-sphere could be smoothly turned inside-out in $\mathbb{R}^3$, which he thought was obviously wrong. But Smale's general result was correct, and this led to the discovery of the explicit eversions of the 2-sphere mentioned in the Wikipedia article. | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:27 | comment | added | Vectornaut | I can't find anything in the Wikipedia article about Smale's eversion looking like an "obvious counterexample" to anything. Can you give us some more sources or information? | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:26 | history | edited | Steve Huntsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added link
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| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:21 | history | answered | John Stillwell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |