Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 17:43 | comment | added | Watson | However, this works for finite ring extensions (see here). | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | Q-Zh | This fact is used to prove Schur's lemma for l-group which is countable at infinity. （In the language of Bernstein-Zelevinsky） | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 22:16 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Wow, good one. For by me now it is very viscerally known that "passage to the field of fractions does not change the size." This is true in the sense of cardinality, but.... | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:45 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @ACL I learned this not very long ago myself, from here: mathoverflow.net/a/15232/2926 | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 6:40 | comment | added | ACL | By the way, this fact is the basis for a beautiful proof of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz. | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 22:47 | comment | added | darij grinberg | The uncountably many elements $1/(x-a)$ for all $a \in \mathbb C$ are linearly independent. | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | Turbo | is this not true? | |
| S Nov 29, 2014 at 14:18 | history | answered | Todd Trimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Nov 29, 2014 at 14:18 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble |