Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Dec 28, 2017 at 9:41 | comment | added | user541686 | Easy counterexample: $6 = 2 \times 3$ but $6$ does not divide $2$ or $3$... | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 18:40 | comment | added | Malik Younsi | @MartinBrandenburg : What does it mean for an assumption to be incorrect or correct? | |
| May 9, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | roy smith | i was never able to eradicate this mistake, even by my best students, in spite of naming it the prime divisibility property. | |
| Oct 5, 2010 at 8:23 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | the correct assumption is $gcd(a,b)=1$. | |
| Jun 1, 2010 at 23:52 | history | answered | Malik Younsi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |