Timeline for Examples of math hoaxes/interesting jokes published on April Fool's day?
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| Apr 8, 2016 at 8:00 | comment | added | joro | Thanks. This is what I asked and suspected. Upvoted, but like the hoaxes here which are provably false better. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 17:53 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @joro : I still don't fully understand, but perhaps the following remarks may help. Given any computer technology in the foreseeable future, only a tiny fraction of chess positions have the property that their value (i.e., win/loss/draw) can be established rigorously, and only a slightly less tiny fraction of chess positions can be be analyzed "semi-rigorously" in the sense of the hoax article. No "interesting" opening position such as the King's Gambit falls into either category. Note that many positions whose outcome is "morally certain" still cannot be analyzed even semi-rigorously. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | joro | I read most of the link and realize it claims unproved result. The question is "Is the result false?" as in the hoax for counterexample of FLT. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @joro : You mean the Chessbase hoax? Yes, of course it is false. Did you follow the link? What do you mean "Any chance it is open now?"? Does "it" refer to the hoax? If so, what does it mean for a hoax to be "open"? | |
| Apr 2, 2016 at 5:53 | comment | added | joro | Is it certain that the hoax is really false? Any chance it is open now? | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | That's actually not far (even in many subsidiary details) from yet another item in Martin Gardner's famous April column that already accounts for two answers here. | |
| S Apr 1, 2016 at 17:19 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Apr 1, 2016 at 17:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Timothy Chow |