Timeline for Did Euler prove theorems by example?
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| Mar 20 at 11:02 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 16:58 | vote | accept | Mikhail Katz | ||
| Jun 19, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Just by coincidence I came across a passage on Polya's book Mathematics and plausible reasoning, where he translates an article of Euler's. Here Euler proposes a certain formula, admits he has no formal proof for it, but points out that he has checked it for many examples. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 18:19 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @JanDvorak In case you're not making a joke (which I don't quite get), I'm referring to this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat_number#Primality_of_Fermat_numbers | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @ToddTrimble I am a bit disappointed I haven't been able to find an article titled "the most famous Fermat composite". | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Good point indeed! | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Another example that comes to mind is how Euler refuted the guess made by Fermat that $2^{2^n} + 1$ is always a prime. Surely he was made aware many times of the dangers of arguing on evidence from a few cases. | |
| S Jun 16, 2016 at 13:40 | history | answered | Willie Wong | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jun 16, 2016 at 13:40 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Willie Wong |