Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Oct 20, 2010 at 10:31 | comment | added | Denis Serre | Related to the mistake mentionned by David, the fact that the solution of a vector ODE $x'(t)=A(t)x(t)$ should be $$\left(\exp\int_0^tA(s)ds\right)x(0).$$ | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 13:40 | comment | added | David E Speyer | A more elementary, and I would bet more common, mistake is to believe that exp(A+B)=exp(A) exp(B) with no hypotheses on A and B. | |
| Jun 1, 2010 at 20:51 | history | answered | Andreas Rüdinger | CC BY-SA 2.5 |