Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Dec 4 at 7:54 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 14 at 14:37 | answer | added | LSpice | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 14 at 2:30 | answer | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4 at 21:45 | answer | added | darij grinberg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 11:33 | comment | added | Piquito | Before Lindemann (1882) many people dedicated a large part of their lives to the intention of demonstrating the squareness of the circle. | |
| Dec 2, 2023 at 10:58 | answer | added | Gro-Tsen | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 1:31 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 24, 2023 at 12:24 | answer | added | darij grinberg | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 12:07 | answer | added | David Gao | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 11:47 | answer | added | David Gao | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 5:10 | answer | added | William Sun | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 3, 2023 at 1:03 | comment | added | Cornman | @JohnPalmieri Maybe one should take the time, and sort the examples by topic and make a pdf out of it, or even publish the thread as a book... | |
| May 3, 2023 at 1:02 | comment | added | Cornman | One common false belief that beginners often make is to believe that $\sum_{k=1}^5 5=5$. Asking a beginner, I have not yet gotten a correct answer to this question. | |
| Apr 30, 2023 at 19:56 | review | Close votes | |||
| May 1, 2023 at 13:16 | |||||
| Mar 27, 2023 at 13:38 | answer | added | pageman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 22:14 | answer | added | Dirk | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 19:21 | answer | added | Tadashi | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 17:04 | answer | added | Craig Feinstein | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 21:36 | comment | added | John Palmieri | This question makes me wish that answers, not just questions, could have tags. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 18:39 | answer | added | tsnao | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 10, 2022 at 1:10 | answer | added | Tom Copeland | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 6:56 | answer | added | dohmatob | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 17:57 | answer | added | Or Shahar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 0:11 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 2:05 | answer | added | PrimeRibeyeDeal | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 11:12 | answer | added | Kapil | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 5, 2022 at 21:23 | answer | added | Henry | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 21:12 | review | Close votes | |||
| Aug 31, 2021 at 8:09 | |||||
| Aug 16, 2021 at 8:37 | answer | added | Infinity_hunter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 17:08 | answer | added | Yonah Borns-Weil | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 30, 2021 at 6:32 | review | Close votes | |||
| May 30, 2021 at 8:05 | |||||
| May 19, 2021 at 14:23 | answer | added | Santi Spadaro | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 10, 2021 at 13:06 | review | Close votes | |||
| May 10, 2021 at 14:59 | |||||
| Apr 3, 2021 at 7:49 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: -6 | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 3:43 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 22, 2021 at 3:48 | answer | added | David Corwin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 1:30 | answer | added | José Hdz. Stgo. | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 8, 2021 at 16:44 | answer | added | Moishe Kohan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 16:15 | answer | added | Ivan Solonenko | timeline score: 19 | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 4:47 | answer | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 12:24 | answer | added | Moishe Kohan | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 8:18 | answer | added | Alessandro Della Corte | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 20:40 | answer | added | Alessandro Della Corte | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 16:11 | answer | added | Pace Nielsen | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 17:42 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 5:37 | answer | added | Fernando Martin | timeline score: 15 | |
| Sep 27, 2020 at 15:24 | answer | added | James Propp | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 7:50 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2020 at 0:06 | answer | added | user147204 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 23, 2020 at 2:49 | answer | added | Moishe Kohan | timeline score: 38 | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 22:35 | answer | added | YCor | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 22:55 | answer | added | doetoe | timeline score: 21 | |
| Mar 11, 2020 at 15:47 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 12:54 | answer | added | user144185 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 4:49 | answer | added | KhashF | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 12:07 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 10, 2020 at 8:15 | comment | added | Watson | Nice (counter-)examples in arithmetic geometry are given here : mathoverflow.net/questions/91546. Typically, two elliptic curves over a number field $K$ can have the same $L$-function without being isogenous (this is true if $K = \Bbb Q$, but not if $K = \Bbb Q(i)$). | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:38 | answer | added | Fernando Martin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 14, 2019 at 13:20 | answer | added | Chain Markov | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 14, 2019 at 13:15 | answer | added | Chain Markov | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 7:52 | answer | added | Aditya Guha Roy | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 1, 2019 at 15:57 | answer | added | Santi Spadaro | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
| Mar 28, 2019 at 17:45 | |||||
| Mar 6, 2019 at 14:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 13, 2019 at 5:35 | review | Close votes | |||
| Feb 13, 2019 at 9:08 | |||||
| Jan 26, 2019 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 26, 2019 at 19:16 | |||||
| Jan 22, 2019 at 1:38 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because I think this question has outlived its usefulness. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 22:55 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 18, 2019 at 9:41 | |||||
| Jan 17, 2019 at 22:37 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the most downvoted answers are the best ones. After all, a large number of downvotes means that the mathematics community holds to the misconception as well. | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 21:00 | answer | added | Eric Towers | timeline score: -2 | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 6:02 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 22:24 | answer | added | Stephen Meskin | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 22:24 | answer | added | Masayoshi Kaneda | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 22:45 | answer | added | user539887 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 16, 2018 at 22:30 | answer | added | LSpice | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 11:27 | answer | added | Taras Banakh | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 18:52 | answer | added | TMM | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 14:38 | answer | added | Peter Heinig | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 1:28 | answer | added | CHUAKS | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 14:34 | review | Close votes | |||
| Feb 6, 2018 at 15:52 | |||||
| Feb 6, 2018 at 14:15 | answer | added | A. S. | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 16:33 | answer | added | Somatic Custard | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 0:01 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 21:46 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 0:37 | review | Close votes | |||
| Dec 31, 2017 at 14:49 | |||||
| Dec 18, 2017 at 13:41 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 4:12 | review | Close votes | |||
| Dec 11, 2017 at 10:01 | |||||
| Oct 22, 2017 at 12:33 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | wow, this will soon reach 666 votes... a nice score for a question about false beliefs | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 22:20 | review | Close votes | |||
| Oct 8, 2017 at 9:06 | |||||
| Oct 7, 2017 at 20:12 | answer | added | Dominic van der Zypen | timeline score: 19 | |
| Oct 3, 2017 at 3:11 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 8:55 | review | Close votes | |||
| Sep 20, 2017 at 10:35 | |||||
| Sep 20, 2017 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because enough false beliefs already | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 12:07 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 4:14 | review | Close votes | |||
| Sep 13, 2017 at 6:38 | |||||
| Aug 11, 2017 at 12:58 | answer | added | Joseph Van Name | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 16:41 | review | Close votes | |||
| Aug 10, 2017 at 20:59 | |||||
| Aug 10, 2017 at 16:14 | answer | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:44 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 9:02 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jul 27, 2017 at 10:14 | |||||
| Jul 24, 2017 at 15:14 | answer | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 4:43 | answer | added | roy smith | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 4:13 | answer | added | ಠ_ಠ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 3:04 | answer | added | Pace Nielsen | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 13, 2017 at 13:39 | comment | added | Maxime Ramzi | People think that in a complete lattice $T$, if $M\subset T$, then $\operatorname{inf} M\leq \operatorname{sup} M$ | |
| Jul 13, 2017 at 2:19 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:03 | comment | added | Sabrina Gemsa | Students thinking that the field $\mathbb{F}_4$ is the ring $\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}$... | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 8:51 | comment | added | user62639 | one typical mistake in matrix algebras: positive matrices must have positive entries. (However, for example $\begin{pmatrix} 1 & -1 \\ -1 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ is positive as well, since this matrix is self-adjoint and has non-negative eigenvalues) | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 11:42 | answer | added | Benoît Kloeckner | timeline score: 20 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 16:41 | answer | added | H Koba | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 12:45 | answer | added | Max Horn | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 14, 2016 at 22:28 | answer | added | Harry Altman | timeline score: 43 | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 21:43 | answer | added | Moishe Kohan | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 16:30 | answer | added | Jacob White | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 12:37 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 3:54 | answer | added | HenrikRüping | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 20:46 | answer | added | DanielWainfleet | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 19:35 | answer | added | Ali Taghavi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 16:35 | answer | added | Amir Asghari | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 11, 2016 at 16:40 | answer | added | Mikhail Goltvanitsa | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2016 at 8:19 | answer | added | Mikhail Goltvanitsa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2016 at 11:19 | answer | added | user 1 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 13:59 | answer | added | Sebastian Goette | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 3:36 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 3:52 | answer | added | Gustavo | timeline score: 11 | |
| S Nov 9, 2015 at 19:54 | history | edited | Marco Golla | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Nov 9, 2015 at 19:54 | history | suggested | hbp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 19:38 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 22:21 | answer | added | J Tyson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 18, 2015 at 16:00 | answer | added | Aaron Bergman | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 18, 2015 at 15:48 | answer | added | Arnaud Chéritat | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 12:13 | answer | added | Konrad Waldorf | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 6, 2015 at 1:37 | answer | added | Minimus Heximus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 22:05 | answer | added | Lucas K. | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 12:43 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 10, 2015 at 4:07 | answer | added | Tadashi | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 9:18 | answer | added | user68208 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 15:13 | answer | added | Frieder Ladisch | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 14:40 | answer | added | Michael Albanese | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 10:51 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 12, 2015 at 18:35 | answer | added | Benjamin | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 12, 2015 at 8:16 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 6, 2015 at 8:24 | answer | added | Dirk | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 5, 2015 at 19:51 | answer | added | Michał Masny | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 5, 2015 at 17:56 | answer | added | Trevor Wilson | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 14:16 | answer | added | Sebastien Palcoux | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 2:18 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | Over $200$ false beliefs so far… maybe true beliefs are even more, but certainly not as popular! | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 1:22 | answer | added | Ilan Barnea | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 11:13 | answer | added | Denis Serre | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 14:18 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 22:55 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 10:31 | answer | added | Denis Serre | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 2:50 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 5:54 | answer | added | Tobias Fritz | timeline score: 40 | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 2:15 | answer | added | Ali Taghavi | timeline score: 24 | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 15:33 | answer | added | Dominic van der Zypen | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 30, 2014 at 17:18 | comment | added | ABIM | This is such a wonderfull question! | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 10:10 | answer | added | Mostafa - Free Palestine | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jun 5, 2014 at 12:38 | answer | added | Burak | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 21, 2014 at 13:10 | answer | added | Fabien Besnard | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 8:17 | history | edited | Baby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2014 at 22:36 | answer | added | truebaran | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 15:41 | answer | added | Izhar Oppenheim | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 6:47 | answer | added | Selim G | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 8, 2013 at 6:20 | answer | added | Mustafa Said | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 3, 2013 at 9:56 | answer | added | Craig | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 3, 2013 at 9:01 | answer | added | Benoît Kloeckner | timeline score: 14 | |
| Dec 3, 2013 at 7:51 | answer | added | Seirios | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 2, 2013 at 23:15 | answer | added | Bruce Blackadar | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 7, 2013 at 8:58 | comment | added | Matthias Künzer | @Georges Elencwajg: if I recall correctly, someone suggested "unimorphism" (Latin/Greek-mixture), but Weil insisted on "monomorphism". | |
| Oct 30, 2013 at 20:32 | answer | added | Tadashi | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 18:33 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | @quid: yes, that's a possibility. I know that long ago some purists objected to television for the same reason. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 17:11 | comment | added | user9072 | @GeorgesElencwajg I think the point is that surjective homomorphism would be such a mix (the former being 'Latin' and the latter 'Greek', at least in an ethymological sense). | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 14:46 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Dear @Matthias, what was the proposed mixture of Greek and Latin ? | |
| S Oct 15, 2013 at 2:35 | history | notice removed | François G. Dorais | ||
| S Oct 15, 2013 at 2:35 | history | unlocked | François G. Dorais | ||
| Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 | history | protected | François G. Dorais | ||
| S Oct 11, 2013 at 1:03 | history | notice added | Kim Morrison | Historical significance | |
| S Oct 11, 2013 at 1:03 | history | locked | Kim Morrison | ||
| Oct 11, 2013 at 1:03 | history | reopened | Kim Morrison | ||
| Sep 10, 2013 at 13:01 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 14:21 | history | edited | François G. Dorais |
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| Oct 13, 2011 at 6:09 | comment | added | Matthias Künzer | @Thierry: As far as I know, "epimorphism" is Bourbaki terminology. I think Weil insisted on not mixing Greek and Latin at this point. So yes, you're right, since Bourbaki's point of view is "sets with structure", the definition via surjectivity is the original one. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 20:55 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | @Matthias: the epimorphism thing might stem not so much from a false belief as from unfortunate terminology. For many people, the definition of epimorphism is surjective homomorphism. Presumably this definition predates the category-theoretic one by many decades. | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 22:24 | history | closed |
user6976 Felipe Voloch George Lowther Mark Meckes Ryan Budney |
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| Oct 8, 2011 at 20:28 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | I vote not to close | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 16:11 | history | reopened |
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| Oct 8, 2011 at 14:38 | comment | added | Matthias Künzer | Sorry for being late. Two common false beliefs: 1. Any ring epimorphism is surjective. 2. Suppose given a short exact sequence X'->X->X'' in an abelian category A. If a full subcategory B of A contains X' and X, but not X'', then X'->X does not have a cokernel in B. (Wrong for A = Z-mod, B = Z-free, (X'->X->X'') = (Z -2-> Z -> Z/2).) | |
| Oct 8, 2011 at 14:27 | comment | added | user9072 | Meta created tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1165/… | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 16:56 | history | closed | François G. Dorais | no longer relevant | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | I would vote to close at this point if I didn't have superpowers. It is a great question, but perhaps 17 months is long enough. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 12:47 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | It's almost surely time for this to be closed. Flagging for moderator attention. | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 16:33 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 3, 2011 at 12:32 | answer | added | André Caldas | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 5:01 | answer | added | Anthony Quas | timeline score: 29 | |
| May 19, 2011 at 23:26 | answer | added | Claudio Gorodski | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 11, 2011 at 13:00 | answer | added | Ben McKay | timeline score: 26 | |
| May 9, 2011 at 22:47 | answer | added | aorq | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 9, 2011 at 20:05 | answer | added | leonbloy | timeline score: 34 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 23:25 | answer | added | Pait | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 4, 2011 at 15:00 | answer | added | Benjamin Hayes | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 4, 2011 at 11:25 | answer | added | Aryeh Kontorovich | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 4, 2011 at 0:37 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 3, 2011 at 15:52 | answer | added | Richard Borcherds | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 26, 2011 at 4:43 | answer | added | Matt Noonan | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 22, 2011 at 8:50 | answer | added | Denis Serre | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 23:29 | answer | added | Amit Kumar Gupta | timeline score: 154 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 21:33 | answer | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 14, 2011 at 18:19 | answer | added | Malik Younsi | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 14, 2011 at 8:33 | answer | added | KotelKanim | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 13, 2011 at 22:38 | answer | added | Eric Wofsey | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 13, 2011 at 9:09 | answer | added | carinii | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 9:01 | answer | added | mathahada | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 7:59 | answer | added | Laurent Moret-Bailly | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 15:14 | answer | added | carinii | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 19:31 | answer | added | Thierry Zell | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 19:24 | answer | added | Sam Nead | timeline score: 52 | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 18:42 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 28 | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 18:08 | answer | added | user11235 | timeline score: 21 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 12:45 | answer | added | user11235 | timeline score: 23 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 11:23 | answer | added | Zsbán Ambrus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 5:10 | answer | added | dorkusmonkey | timeline score: -7 | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 21:04 | answer | added | Greg Gibson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2011 at 4:42 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 11:21 | answer | added | coco | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 12:37 | answer | added | darij grinberg | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 6, 2011 at 22:35 | answer | added | Yaakov Baruch | timeline score: 83 | |
| Mar 6, 2011 at 14:16 | answer | added | user19475 | timeline score: 19 | |
| Mar 5, 2011 at 23:02 | answer | added | Richard Stanley | timeline score: 65 | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 18:01 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 27, 2011 at 14:01 | answer | added | MichalisN | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 22:53 | answer | added | darij grinberg | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 7:49 | answer | added | user11000 | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 4:02 | answer | added | Robert Haraway | timeline score: 17 | |
| Feb 6, 2011 at 7:45 | answer | added | Harry Altman | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 16:28 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 1:38 | answer | added | Jose Arnaldo Bebita | timeline score: -6 | |
| Dec 18, 2010 at 20:05 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | In addition to common false beliefs, I find something somewhat amusingly alleged to be a common false belief: Some time around 2003 or 2004, when Wikipedia was less developed than it later became, its article about the product rule asserted that the derivative of a product of two functions is different from what "most people think" it is. Then it said "Most people think that $(fg)' = f'g'$. | |
| Dec 18, 2010 at 19:50 | answer | added | John R Ramsden | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 18, 2010 at 12:34 | answer | added | John R Ramsden | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 16, 2010 at 14:13 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 30 | |
| Dec 7, 2010 at 22:04 | answer | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | timeline score: 23 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 9:18 | answer | added | safak | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 1, 2010 at 22:57 | answer | added | ACL | timeline score: -11 | |
| Dec 1, 2010 at 22:44 | answer | added | Alastair Litterick | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 1, 2010 at 21:32 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 27, 2010 at 16:59 | answer | added | Thierry Zell | timeline score: 52 | |
| Nov 27, 2010 at 15:24 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 22 | |
| Nov 27, 2010 at 14:23 | answer | added | Unknown | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 19:07 | comment | added | Unknown | Most examples are fantastic especially for those preparing for qualifying/comprehensive exams. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 12:25 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 30 | |
| Oct 20, 2010 at 21:58 | answer | added | Karol | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 20, 2010 at 18:20 | answer | added | zhoraster | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 20, 2010 at 4:02 | answer | added | Anonymous | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 20, 2010 at 2:51 | answer | added | Boris Shekhtman | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 15:51 | answer | added | Denis Serre | timeline score: 36 | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 2:35 | answer | added | anonymous | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Oct 4, 2010 at 20:13 | comment | added | gowers | It's a thought -- I might consider it. | |
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| Sep 20, 2010 at 12:39 | comment | added | Suvrit | wouldn't it be great to compile all the nice examples (and some of the most relevant discussion / comments) presented below into a little writeup? that would make for a highly educative and entertaining read. | |
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| May 22, 2010 at 9:04 | comment | added | Unknown | The answers below are truly informative. Big thanks for your question. I have always loved your post here in MO and wordpress. | |
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| May 4, 2010 at 21:02 | history | asked | gowers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |